Will Elder
William "Will" Elder (born September 22, 1921 as Wolf William Eisenberg in the Bronx , New York , † May 15, 2008 in Rockleigh , New Jersey ) was an American illustrator and comic book artist who, through his drawings for Mad is known.
Life
From the late 1940s, Elder created comic drawings with Harvey Kurtzman for Prize Comics and other magazines. When Kurtzman founded Mad Magazine in 1952 , Elder was a founding member. His drawings were characterized by unusual background gags , which was continued by later Mad artists and has since become a trademark of Mad . Elder left Mad in 1957 and again worked with Kurtzman on other magazines in the same style; however, none of them lasted long in the market. In 1962, Elder began working with Kurtzman to draw the comic strip Little Annie Fanny for the men's magazine Playboy .
Elder's advertising designs, caricatures, cartoons and illustrations can be found in the retrospectives, Will Elder: The Mad Playboy of Art ( Fantagraphics , 2003; ISBN 1-56097-603-9 ) and Chicken Fat from 2006. Another compilation under the title Humbug , with contributions not only from him, but also Harvey Kurtzman , Jack Davis , Al Jaffee and Arnold Roth appeared in 2008.
Elder was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2003.
Web links
- Literature by and about Will Elder in the catalog of the German National Library
- WillElder.net - the official website
Individual evidence
- ^ Will Elder on britannica.com , accessed December 9, 2008
- ^ Franco Fossati: The large illustrated Ehapa comic lexicon . Ehapa Verlag, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-7704-0865-9 , p. 160.
- ↑ Website at Fantagraphics ( Memento from July 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Elder, Will |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Eisenberg, Wolf William |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American illustrator and comic book artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 22, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | new York |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 15, 2008 |
| Place of death | Rockleigh , New Jersey |