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For example, if the comic book was sealed, you must return it in sealed condition, if it was in a special case or box it must be returned in its original packaging, etc. To be eligible for a return, your item must be in the same condition that you received it. Simons, Georgia, as well as a daughter and a son.We have a 14-day return policy, which means you have 14 days after receiving your item to request a return. It perfectly expressed the era in which he worked.”ĭavis is survived by his wife, Dena, of St. “Jack Davis was a seminal figure in illustration of the last century,” said Chris Garvin, director of the UGA Lamar Dodd School of Art. Navy), he continued to produce innumerable billboards and other artwork celebrating the “Dawgs” throughout his life. While Davis was masterful at caricatures of recognizable figures, he took amusing liberties with all his subjects, endowing them with distinctly large heads, pipe-stem legs and snowshoe-size feet.Īs a proud alumnus of the University of Georgia (which he attended on the G.I. In 1961, he wrote, drew, and edited his own comic book, “Yak Yak,” for Dell Comics. Neuman.Īlong the way, Davis also created numerous covers for TV Guide and Time, and provided artwork for books, record jackets, and posters for films including “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World,” “American Graffiti” and Woody Allen’s “Bananas.” His far-flung illustrations poked fun at politicians and celebrities along with countless portraits of the magazine’s perpetually grinning mascot, Alfred E. He remained a member of “The Usual Gang of Idiots” (as the magazine billed them) for the next six decades. Feldstein and Harvey Kurtzman – when they launched the pioneering satire magazine Mad in 1952. Then, in 1950, he scored the first of many sales of his artwork to EC Comics, which published a line of horror titles including “Tales from the Crypt.” He was 91.Īs a struggling young artist in New York, Davis was “about ready to give up, go home to Georgia and be either a forest ranger or a farmer,” he recalled in an interview a few years ago. He died Wednesday morning, according to his son-in-law, Chris Lloyd. NEW YORK – Jack Davis, the prolific Mad magazine illustrator, cartoonist and movie poster artist, has died.

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