Posted on 07/27/2016 8:17:10 PM PDT by Beowulf9
The veteran illustrator also provided covers for 'TV Guide' and poster artwork for 'The Long Goodbye' and 'It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.'
Jack Davis, a cartoonist and illustrator best known for being one of the founders of MAD Magazine, has died, the humor publication confirmed Wednesday. He was 91.
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Rest in peace. The last page to fold was my favorite part. And I could read forever the little cartoons in the margins.
Dick Bartolo is a regular guest with Leo Laporte and is still funny although a flaming dude with a messed up development that needs fixing.
https://youtu.be/YrNHA5kyYLc
LOL, So true.
I had a stack of Mad Magazines from the early ‘70s.
Never break up with a girlfriend *before* you get all your stuff back.
I started reading MAD in about 1953 or ‘54. I still remember walking down to the neighborhood drug store and getting my copy. I read it right through the early ‘70s. Davis was a genius, as were about a dozen of the cartoonists there. A true MADman. RIP.
RIP, Dave.
Thanks for all the great artwork and laughs!
I miss the early MAD, and [most of] the American culture it poked fun at. Nice to have the Internet, though.
R.I.P. Jack Davis.
Heh, Jack. Sheesh.
Humor in a jugular vein.
Loved Mad as a teen around 1967-1972.
The TV show parodies were so well done and illustrated.
The rear covers were great too.
One I remember was how they actually got all those tomatoes into the Contadina tomato paste can.
They turned pinko/commie after Bill Gaines died.
They always were anti-establishment,but they could really sock it to lefties when it came time to do so.
In fact one of Jack Davis' funniest features was where he drew a cartoon about all of the leftists crying/protesting about "the system" but then the next panel had the same liberals lining up for their welfare checks.
One of the characters had a hat over his face with eye holes in it, like the Cosby kid who wears the pink ski-cap.
Hilarious.
BTW, Al Jaffee is still alive. He's 94.
Don Martin will always be my favorite, though.
I do not think it is as good as it was but this is true for comics and other publications.
Longevity in many cases ensures mediocrity.
The same can be said for TV shows like Saturday Night Live before we called it “SNL”.
Every publication has its day, and then declines.
The “sock it to everybody” torch seems to have been passed to South Park.
I was definitely a big fan of Mad Magazine
I am a super fan of Jack Davis. I grew up reading MAD magazine back when they were just a 10 cent comic book.
Davis was the artist in the old “Tales From The Crypt” and other horror comics. He did numerous magazine covers over the years, and posters.
As an amateur cartoonist, he was my idol. Every cartoonist is familiar with, and many have tried to emulate his work. The closest I’ve seen is the cartoonist Cagle, whose toons often appear on Pookie’s Toons.
He will be sorely missed.
RIP Jack Davis, the Bulldog world will miss you!
My October 2016 issue arrived in my mailbox today. I sure hope it carries on?
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