program for educators and working professionals at Marywood University in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He is director of the “Get Your Masters with the Masters” low-residency M.F.A. He is the author and designer of books on Louis Armstrong, Mort Meskin, Woody Guthrie and the history of mass-market paperbacks. Steven Brower is a graphic designer, writer, and educator and a former creative director/art director of Print. RELATED POSTS Valérian: The Rich Graphic Novels Behind the Film Skip Williamson & Jay Lynch Kept the Fun in Underground Funnies Trump: A Smart, Sophisticated, Satirical Graphic Humor Magazine Video Packaging Meets the Criterion of Highest Quality Mad (Magazine) Crazy… About Steven Brower One thing his work always produced in the viewer was a smile. He was awarded a lifetime achievement award from The National Cartoonists Society in 1996, and in 2005 was inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame. Throughout the next several decades Davis’ art appeared everywhere: on movie posters, magazine covers, ads, packaging, album covers, and more. Following the Congressional hearings in 1954 concerning the supposed relationship between juvenile delinquency and comic books, the company and Davis turned to humor with MAD, first in comic book and then in magazine form, the later to avoid censorship by the newly established Comics Code Authority. His frenetic, satirical style skewered and lambasted the politicians, movie stars, and pop icons of the day, setting the tone for television shows such as Saturday Night Live and Second City TV in the 1970s.Ī master of several genres, Davis began his career at EC comics providing art for their horror and war lines. Like many of my generation, I first encountered his work in the pages of MAD magazine and my world view was never the same. On July 27, 2016, Jack Davis, one of the most prolific and influential cartoonists and illustrators of the second half of the twentieth century, passed away in St.
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