{"id":55758,"date":"2014-12-18T09:33:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T16:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=55758"},"modified":"2014-12-18T09:33:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T16:33:00","slug":"legendary-mad-magazine-illustrator-jack-davis-calls-it-quits-at-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=55758","title":{"rendered":"“Legendary Mad Magazine Illustrator Jack Davis Calls It Quits at 90”"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Wired<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Jack Davis, the legendary Mad magazine illustrator and movie poster artist, is finally hanging up his pencils.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not that the iconic 90-year-old cartoonist can\u2019t draw anymore\u2014he just can\u2019t meet his own standards. \u201cI\u2019m not satisfied with the work,\u201d Davis says by phone from his rural Georgia home. \u201cI can still draw, but I just can\u2019t draw like I used to.\u201d<\/p>\n

Davis has probably spent more time in America\u2019s 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. \u201cI never really thought about that, but I guess I\u2019m very blessed,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019ve been very lucky.\u201d<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Whereas Norman Rockwell\u2019s images represented Americana of the 1940s and \u201950s with his Boy Scouts and pigtailed girls, Davis\u2019 work epitomized the \u201960s and \u201970s\u2014the smirking, sardonic face of the emerging counterculture. By the time the Beats and the Hippies (who came of age reading Davis cartoons) took over, he was doing movie posters for Woody Allen\u2019s Bananas<\/em>, The Long Goodbye<\/em>, American Graffiti<\/em>, and others [note: one of those others was the original Bad News Bears, an original one-sheet of which I have a framed copy – ed.<\/em>]<\/p>\n

\u201cJack Davis is probably the most versatile artist ever to work the worlds of comic books, illustration, or movie poster art,\u201d Scott Dunbier, a former art dealer and current director of special projects at comic book publisher IDW. \u201cHe can work in a humorous style or deadly serious style, historical or modern, anything. His work transcends that of almost any other cartoonist.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A great talent who, along with Mort Drucker, George Woodbridge, and Paul Rickard, taught me to draw as a youngster. His work is most certainly iconic — and for those of us who grew up during the 70s, indisputably unforgettable, as well. <\/p>\n

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From Wired: Jack Davis, the legendary Mad magazine illustrator and movie poster artist, is finally hanging up his pencils. It\u2019s not that the iconic 90-year-old cartoonist can\u2019t draw anymore\u2014he just can\u2019t meet his own standards. \u201cI\u2019m not satisfied with the work,\u201d Davis says by phone from his rural Georgia home. \u201cI can still draw, but I just can\u2019t draw like I used to.\u201d Davis has probably spent more time in<\/p>\n

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