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Jack Burton Davis

Jack Burton Davis (1924 - 2016) was active/lived in New York, Georgia.  Jack Davis is known for Magazine illustration, caricatures, drawing, humor.

Jack Davis, Illustrator Known for Work at Mad Magazine, Dies at 91
The New York Times by Karen Zraic, July 28, 2016

Jack Davis, an illustrator who poked fun at celebrities and politicians in Mad magazine for decades and whose work appeared on the covers of Time and TV Guide, died on Wednesday in St. Simons Island, Ga. He was 91.

The cause was complications of a stroke, his son, Jack Davis III, said.

Mr. Davis was a prolific artist, drawing movie posters for films like It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World and The Long Goodbye, as well as record album covers.

“There wasn’t anything Jack couldn’t do,” Mad’s editor, John Ficarra, said in a statement on the magazine’s website. “Front covers, caricatures, sports scenes, monsters — his comedic range was just incredible.”

He got his start in 1950 selling drawings to EC Comics, which published horror fiction titles like Tales From the Crypt. Two years late   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6719 characters.]  Artist bio

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