Showing posts with label Mad Magazine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mad Magazine. Show all posts

90-year-old Jack Davis is retiring from art

Famed for his work for Mad Magazine and numerous other publications, movie posters, album covers and more, artist Jack Davis has announced he's calling it quits at age 90.
It’s not that the iconic 90-year-old cartoonist can’t draw anymore—he just can’t meet his own standards. “I’m not satisfied with the work,” Davis says by phone from his rural Georgia home. “I can still draw, but I just can’t draw like I used to.”

Davis has probably spent more time in America’s living rooms than anyone. Mad was a million-seller when Davis was on the mag, and when he was doing TV Guide covers in the 1970s, the publication boasted a circulation of over 20 million. Yet, Davis is largely unaware of his massive cultural significance. “I never really thought about that, but I guess I’m very blessed,” he says. “I’ve been very lucky.”




Worthy Kickstarter project: Fund a documentary film about Mad Magazine

Why the heck hasn't somebody done this already?!!

Via Mark Evanier: Here's a pitch for full-length documentary about Mad Magazine and how it ruined changed America!

The filmmakers have already complete interviews with numerous famed Madmen, including Sergio Aragones, Jack Davis, Mort Drucker, Al Jaffe and more familiar names from your juvenile delinquent years. They know want to interview Mad fans.

Here's a preview:





Al Jaffee gives snappy answers to not-so-stupid questions

Along with the long-running "Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions" feature, Al Jaffee, 89, is famed for creating the back-cover, fold-in cartoon for Mad Magazine. He continues to supply a fold-in for nearly ever issue and is the subject of a new biography, "Al Jaffee's Mad Life" by Mary-Lou Weisman. Nice interview with him here.

Bio pic of Mad Magazine publisher William M. Gaines in the works

From Deadline Hollywood:
John Landis, who’s in Cannes to promote Ealing Studios’ comedy Burke and Hare, tells me he’s lining up the financing for a movie about EC Comics publisher and co-creator Bill Gaines, who was driven out of the comic book business by 1950s morality policers after his unapologetic testimony before a U.S. Senate subcommittee investigating juvenile delinquency. Gaines retaliated by converting one of his titles Mad into a satirical magazine which specialized in skewering all aspects of uptight society. Joel Eisenberg has written the screenplay Ghoulishly Yours, William M Gaines.