Thursday, March 3, 2011

Jack Davis - The Mad Cartoonists - part 4

By the time Harvey Kurtzman was writing the stories for "Mad" #4 in 1953, it seems he was finding his real voice. As evidenced here in "Flob was a Slob" drawn by Jack Davis, he was finding he could go beyond just lampooning the sci-fi and horror comics he was doing for EC's other comics, and even beyond satirizing other pop culture items as with yesterday's/last issue's "The Lone Stranger" for example.

He was finding he could do original little morality plays, like he'd always done, but with a humorous slant.

That's how Aesop started too.








Well, that's Jack Davis in the first 4 issues of "Mad" for you. Next week I'll be sharing the great humor work of Wally Wood.

Good stuff!

Talk to you soon.
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4 comments:

  1. KWThursday, March 3, 2011 at 4:58:00 PM PST

    His style in this story is very much like Wally Wood's. If you hadn't said it was Jack Davis I'd have thought Wally Wood did this.

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  2. Unca JeffyThursday, March 3, 2011 at 6:24:00 PM PST

    One similarity between Davis and Wood for me is...their women are HOT!

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  3. GabrielSaturday, March 5, 2011 at 3:31:00 AM PST

    I love your lasts posts, dude!
    No less than Jack Davis and Basil Wolverton!
    I've been in a short wave these last weeks (you know, getting a life) and now I see I've been missing something great here.

    Thanks for sharing all this stuff!

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  4. Unca JeffySaturday, March 5, 2011 at 12:28:00 PM PST

    Glad you like them Gabriel, there's plenty more to come here in "March MADness".

    Getting a life can indeed be a time consuming thing!

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