Jack Davis (draftsman)

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Jack Davis , (actually John Burton Davis), (born December 2, 1924 in Atlanta , Georgia - † July 27, 2016 in St. Simons Island , Georgia) was an American comic artist and cartoonist , who mainly through his work for the MAD- Magazine and EC Comics . Davis received the Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award from the American National Cartoonist Society (NCS) in 1996 and the NCS Reuben Award in 2000 .

Life

Davis made his debut at the age of twelve with drawing publications in the youth magazine Tip Top Comics . During the Second World War he was a helmsman and prison guard on the island of Guam . During this time he drew the Boondocker series for Navy newspapers . After the war, Davis first enrolled in art at the University of Georgia , where he drew articles for the campus magazine Bullsheet . In 1949, he joined the Art Students League of New York. In 1951, Davis joined EC Comics , where he contributed to the publisher's horror comics, such as Vault of Horror , Tales from the Crypt , Haunt of Fear , Crime SuspenStories , Shock SuspenStories or incredible science fiction , delivered. From 1952 Davis also drew for MAD magazine . Since numerous horror comics had to be discontinued due to the restrictions of the “ Comics Code ”, Davis turned more and more to the publisher's humor publications with MAD and Panic . Further drawings were made for the satirical magazines Trump and Help! . In the years 1958 to 1963 he drew a few comics for Atlas Comics , in the mid-1960s Davis was involved in the cartoon series Little Annie Fanny for Playboy magazine . At the beginning of the 1960s he had largely withdrawn from the comic business and successfully continued his professional career as a cover artist and advertising artist. In the 1970s, Davis drew a few horror comics for Warren Publishing.

Works

  • Mad in Hollywood: the big cinema laugh book , text by Dick de Bartolo, drawings by Jack Davis and Mort Drucker , edited by Nick Meglin. German version by Herbert Feuerstein (= Mad-Taschenbuch ; No. 10) Williams, Hamburg 1976 (original title: A mad look at old movies ), ISBN 3-8071-0078-4 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Jack Davis  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Jack Davis on lambiek.net (English) , accessed on November 19, 2013
  2. ↑ Jack Davis on lfb.it (Italian) , accessed November 19, 2013
  3. ^ Obituary , accessed July 29, 2016
  4. ↑ Meister des Horror in FAZ from July 30, 2016, page 11
  5. ↑ NCS AWARDS at reuben.org (English) , accessed on January 22, 2016
  6. ↑ a b c d e Marcel Feige: The little comic dictionary . Schwarzkopf and Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89602-544-9 , p. 198.
  7. ↑ a b c d Andreas C. Knigge: Comic Lexikon . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , p. 161.
personal data
SURNAME Davis, Jack
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Davis, John Burton (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American comic artist and cartoonist
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Atlanta , Georgia
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 2016
Place of death St. Simons Island , Georgia, USA