![]() ![]() From here he drew sleeves for music from rock to country to brass bands to soul, I have a particularly great Sesame Street album with Davis art all over it which I’ll post soon. He has a huge body of film posters to his name, It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World being a particular classic, which in turn led to record sleeves for the soundtracks. Mad's Original Idiots Jack Davis Jack Davis, John Ficarra (Editor) 4.28 25 ratings2 reviews Want to read Buy on Amazon Rate this book One of MAD's original 'Usual Gang of Idiots,' Jack Davis specialized in illustrated parodies of horror and western stories, all written by Harvey Kurtzman. He worked for a lot of the MAD-a-like humour titles too like, Sick, Cracked, Help and Panic as well as regular work with publications such as Time and TV Guide. Hoo hah One of MADs original 'Usual Gang of Idiots,' artist Jack Davis specialized in parodies of horror and Western stories. He drew some of the best monsters including the classic Frankenstein which was made into a life-size cut out poster (see below). ![]() He was one of the original ‘usual gang of idiots’ from US MAD’s inception in the 50s, a regular on Tales From the Crypt, producing the cover for the later issues, as well as war comic Two-Fisted Tales and a ton of other EC Comics. Where do you begin with Jack Davis? I first saw his work in the UK versions of MAD magazine in the 80s but he had been producing countless numbers of comics, illustrations, record covers and film posters for decades before that. ![]()
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