Mort Drucker, 91, artist/master caricatiurist, MAD Magazine (fwd)
Newsgroups: alt.obituaries
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2020 08:34:33 -0700 (PDT)
Mort Drucker, R.I.P.
Published Thursday, April 9, 2020 at 7:33 AM
Mort Drucker, whose awesome skills at caricature were the envy of everyone
who ever tried to draw a famous face, died last night at the age of 91. I
have no details as to the cause of death but I can tell you a few things
aboutt Mort.
Mort began drawing comic books in 1947 when Will Eisner, who had seen the
young artist's work, recommended him to Bert Whitman who drew the
newspaper strip, Debbie Dean. He was an assistant on that strip and
several others until he joined the staff of National (now DC) Comics in
the early fifties where he was a production artist doing "fixes" and such
in the office.
....
He found his way to MAD magazine in 1956 at a precarious moment in
that publication's history. Founding editor Harvey Kurtzman had departed
and taken most of the art crew with him. Replacement editor Al Feldstein
was assembling a new team and with no idea how valuable the new applicant
would be to MAD, he took a shot with Drucker.
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