![]() “There was the most energy and the most action. ![]() "Jack's was the most alive,” he noted of the artist's cartoons. Jimmy Carter, Mad magazine, 1978, watercolor and ink on board. Murawski said even among MAD's star lineup of cartoonists, Jack Davis stood out. ![]() The creators didn't intend to change the content of the comic, so they skirted the code by changing the name to MAD magazine.ĭavis was one of the original "usual gang of idiots," the nickname the crew at the magazine gave themselves. When that regulation was enacted, EC's horror line folded and Davis went to work for another of the company's titles, MAD. That's because of a 1950s-era Senate subcommittee on juvenile delinquency which created a comic code to enforce rules about acceptable content. His first gig was drawing monsters for EC Comics which produced titles like “The Vault of Horror” and “Tales from the Crypt.” These 10-cent horror comic books were hugely popular with teenage boys, but Davis' work in the genre was short-lived. Florida Football, Ink, watercolor, gouache.ĭavis' career began when the Georgia-born artist arrived in New York City in 1950, a golden age of illustration when artists could find work at one of the city's 20 daily newspapers, at magazines and in advertising. ![]()
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