| ac - Anthony, Rich, Everyone, Thank you for the 11x17 portfolio that was sent as a holiday gift along with the DC Debbi humor art! That made my day! I'll keep an eye out for anything else I might want to buy to take advantage of the 10% discount that applies until the end of the year. Best wishes for a happy holiday season! Regards, Arthur C |
Jack Davis (b. December 2, 1924) is an American cartoonist and illustrator, known for his advertising art, magazine covers, film posters, record album art and numerous comic book stories. He was one of the founding cartoonists for Mad in 1952.
Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Davis saw comic book publication at the age of 12 when he contributed a cartoon to the reader's page of Tip Top Comics #9 (December, 1936). After drawing for his high school newspaper and yearbook, he spent three years in the U.S. Navy, where he contributed to the daily Navy News.[1]
Attending the University of Georgia on the G.I. Bill, he drew for the campus newspaper and helped launch an off-campus humor publication, Bullsheet, which he described as "not political or anything but just something with risque jokes and cartoons." After graduation, he was a cartoonist intern at The Atlanta Journal, and he worked one summer inking Ed Dodd's Mark Trail comic strip, a strip which he later parodied in Mad as Mark Trade.
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