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American caricaturist and comics artist

Mort Drucker
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Drucker in November 2000
Born Morris Drucker
(1929-03-22)March 22, 1929
New York City, U.S.
Died April nine, 2020(2020-04-09) (anile 91)
Woodbury, New York, U.S.
Nationality American
Area(due south) Cartoonist, artist

Notable works

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Morris "Mort" Drucker [one] [2] (March 22, 1929 – Apr ix, 2020)[3] was an American caricaturist and comics artist best known as a contributor for over five decades in Mad, where he specialized in satires on the leading feature films and television series.

Personal life [edit]

Drucker was built-in in Brooklyn, New York City,[4] with some sources listing his birth date as March 22, 1929, and others as March 29.[five] He was the son of Sarah (Spielvogel), a homemaker, and Edward Drucker, a businessman.[half dozen] His family was Jewish.[7] He attended Brooklyn'southward Erasmus Hall Loftier Schoolhouse. There he met his future married woman Barbara, whom he married soon after her graduation. The couple moved to Long Isle, living in Syosset, where they brought upwardly two daughters, Laurie and Melanie; their family eventually expanded with three grandchildren.[8]

Career [edit]

Drucker entered the comics field by assisting Bert Whitman on the Publishers-Hall paper comic strip Debbie Dean in 1947 when he was 18, based on a recommendation from Will Eisner. He and so joined the staff of National Periodical Publications (DC Comics), where he worked as a retoucher. While at DC, Drucker also ghosted "The Mountain Boys", Paul Webb's regular gag console for Esquire Magazine.[8] Early in the 1950s, Drucker left his DC staff gig and began doing full-time freelance piece of work for a number of comic volume publishers such as Dell, Atlas and St. John's, likewise as several humor and war titles for his former employer.[9]

Mad [edit]

In the fall of 1956, shortly afterward the deviation of Mad 'due south founding editor Harvey Kurtzman, Drucker found his way to Mad. His beginning visit to the magazine's offices coincided with a World Serial broadcast, and publisher Bill Gaines told Drucker that if the Brooklyn Dodgers won the game, he would exist given a cartoon assignment. The Dodgers won. Capricious though Drucker's declared audition procedure may have been, it was a practiced anecdote. Years afterward, Gaines unsurprisingly confessed, "Nosotros would accept hired him anyway."[10] [xi]

Drucker had arrived at the Mad offices with pages from his Hopalong Cassidy comic book work for DC Comics and some of his "Mountain Boys" strips, likewise equally a humorous "footling situation" featuring The Lone Ranger and Tonto that he had specifically fatigued for the interview. Though this piece of work was unlike the likenesses and continuities he would get best known for, the Mad staff reacted favorably. The outset to review Drucker's portfolio was Mad acquaintance editor Nick Meglin, who admitted, "I didn't spot how peachy he was at caricatures. Not at start. But then, he wasn't that great and then." Drucker said that he "but wanted to be an artist ... to get paid for drawing anything," and just started focusing on extravaganza work, considering he started getting more of those assignments. "That's when I realized I'd plant my calling," said Drucker.[12] At the fourth dimension of Drucker's arrival, Mad did not regularly characteristic tv and motion-picture show satires. Editor Al Feldstein credited Drucker's manner and power for the conclusion to start featuring them in every event.

For well over a decade, Mad had difficulty obtaining promotional photos that Drucker could employ as source cloth for his drawings.[13] When he was illustrating Mad parodies, Drucker'south colleague Angelo Torres brought a camera into pic theaters and snapped pictures of the screen. Eventually, a generation of Mad fans grew upwards and some became Hollywood publicists, making Drucker's research easier.

By the fourth dimension he wound downwardly his Mad career 55 years later, Drucker held the longest uninterrupted tenure of whatsoever Mad artist. Drucker has the most bylined articles past whatever Mad creative person who does not also write his own material, with more than 400.[fourteen]

Other work [edit]

Drucker also remained active for DC, illustrating War Stories, among other titles. Beginning in 1959, he spent four years drawing DC's The Adventures of Bob Promise comic book.[8] Drucker credits this stint equally a fundamental moment in his career because it focused his piece of work on extravaganza.[15]

In 1962, Drucker teamed with the prolific humor writer Paul Laikin on the highly successful JFK Coloring Book (Kanrom Publishers), which sold 2,500,000 copies. Two decades later, Drucker illustrated like coloring books on Ollie Due north and Ronald Reagan.[8] [16] His motion-picture show posters include Universal's American Graffiti (1973), directed past George Lucas[4] with Drucker also drawing the high schoolhouse yearbook pictures in the film trailer.

Drucker also pursued assignments in tv animation, motion picture poster art and magazine analogy, including covers for Time, some of which are in the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution. His album covers include art for the popular band The Bears[17] and the Anthrax album State of Euphoria, besides as humor albums in the vein of his ain "JFK Coloring Book" including "The LBJ Menagerie" and "The New First Family, 1968." In improver to books collecting his ain piece of work, he has provided illustrations for numerous books by others, including children's books, humor books and satire. He drew the prop cartoons used in the 1957 Broadway musical comedy, Rumple.[8]

Between 1984 and 1987, Drucker collaborated with Jerry Dumas (and John Reiner) on the daily comic strip Benchley. Gear up in the White House, the plot revolved around the fictive character Benchley who acted as the assistant and admirer of contemporary president Ronald Reagan. Dumas commented, "Nobody ever did a strip near the authorities. It's a wonderful place to set up a strip. At that place'due south so much room for humor in the White House."[18] Benchley was syndicated by the Register and Tribune Syndicate.[19]

In 1990, Drucker designed the Supercup for Target. The post-obit twelvemonth, for the United Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Association, Drucker and executive Mitchell Erick created the Frugies (pronounced fru-jees) to promote June as National Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Month. The campaign included such characters every bit Lord Mushroom, Pepe L'Pepper, Penelope Pear and Adam Apple.[20]

Manner [edit]

In 2012, Drucker discussed his art style, and how he applied it to his Mad assignments:

I've always considered a caricature to exist the complete person, not just a likeness. Hands, in item, have ever been a prime focus for me every bit they can exist as expressive of character as the exaggerations and distortions a caricaturist searches for. I try to capture the essence of the person, not simply facial features ... I've discovered through years of working at capturing a humorous likeness that it's not about the features themselves as much every bit the space between the features. Nosotros all take two eyes, a nose, a mouth, hair, and jaw lines, only yet nosotros all look different. What makes that and then is the space betwixt them.

The artist is actually creating his own storyboard for the moving picture. I become the "camera" and look for angles, lighting, close-ups, wide angles, long shots — but as a managing director does to tell the story in the nigh visually interesting fashion he can. My first sketches are as much limerick and design ideas as they are character and activity images ... I don't want to get also involved in the juicy parts since some of what I'm doing will be modified or discarded as I get further involved in the storytelling. I then stand back and look at the page as a consummate unit to make sure information technology's designed well: "Hmmm, three close-upwards panels in a row of characters talking. Better change that eye panel to a far shot. Maybe make that console an open up vignette." ...  And then I place the facing pages together and look at how the spread holds together, and sometimes make changes based on that.[21]

Praise [edit]

When the mag'southward parody of The Empire Strikes Back was published in 1980, fatigued by Drucker, the magazine received a stop and desist letter of the alphabet from George Lucas' lawyers demanding that the result exist pulled from sale, and that Mad destroy the printing plates, surrender the original art, and turn over all profits from the effect. Unbeknownst to them, George Lucas had merely sent Mad an effusive letter praising the parody, and declaring, "Special Oscars should be awarded to Drucker and DeBartolo, the George Bernard Shaw and Leonardo da Vinci of comic satire."[22] [23] Publisher Gaines mailed a re-create of the letter to Lucas' lawyers with a handwritten bulletin across the height: "That's funny, George liked it!"[24] There was no further communication on the matter.[25] Drucker had likewise worked on the advertising entrada for Lucas' before flick American Graffiti. In his introduction to the Mad About Star Wars book, Lucas wrote, "I have always defended Mad from my lawyers."[26] [27]

In a 1985 Tonight Bear witness appearance, when Johnny Carson asked Michael J. Play a trick on, "When did you really know y'all'd made it in evidence business?" Fox replied, "When Mort Drucker drew my caput."[28]

Meglin called Drucker "number one in a field of one." Charles Schulz wrote, "Bluntly, I don't know how he does information technology, and I stand in a long list of admirers ... I think he draws everything the way nosotros would all like to draw." In 2012, referring to Drucker'southward splash page for Mad 's parody of The Godfather, the Comics Reporter'due south Tom Spurgeon wrote, "The mode he draws James Caan's eyebrow is worth some folks' entire careers."[29]

Awards [edit]

Mort Drucker's Time covers are in the drove of the National Portrait Gallery. He was recognized for his work with the National Cartoonists Society Special Features Award (1985, 1986, 1987, 1988), its Reuben Award (1987), Eisner Accolade Hall of Fame (2010) and induction into the Guild's Hall of Fame (2017).[30] [31] Drucker was awarded an Honorary Dr. of Fine Arts degree from the Art Institute of Boston. He was awarded the Inkpot Award in 1996.[32]

Death [edit]

Drucker's daughter Laurie announced that he died on April 9, 2020, in his Woodbury, New York abode.[1] She reported to Associated Printing that the previous calendar week he had experienced respiratory problems and had trouble walking, but she did not requite the crusade of his decease. Laurie added that her begetter had not been tested for the coronavirus.[33]

Bibliography [edit]

  • MAD'south Greatest Artists: Mort Drucker by Mort Drucker. Running Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0-7624-4713-eight
  • Tomatoes from Mars past Arthur Yorinks and Mort Drucker. Di Capua, 1999. ISBN 978-0-06-205070-0
  • Whitefish Will Rides Once again! past Arthur Yorinks and Mort Drucker. Di Capua, 1994. ISBN 978-0-06-205037-three
  • Draw 50 Famous Caricatures past Mort Drucker and Lee J. Ames. Doubleday, 1990. ISBN 978-0-385-24629-3
  • The Ronald Reagan Coloring Volume by Mort Drucker and Paul Laikin. Andrews and McMeel, 1988. ISBN 978-0-8362-1826-8
  • Familiar Faces: The Art of Mort Drucker by David Duncan and Mort Drucker. Stabur Press, 1988. ISBN 978-0-941613-03-three
  • The Ollie North Coloring Volume by Mort Drucker and Paul Laikin. Andrews McMeel, 1987. ISBN 978-0-8362-2099-5
  • Benchley, Volume 1 by Mort Drucker. Blackthorne, 1987. ISBN 978-0-932629-24-one
  • Mort Drucker's MAD Show-Stoppers past Mort Drucker. EC, 1985. ISBN 978-99987-8607-iii
  • What to Name Your Jewish Infant by Bill Adler and Mort Drucker and Arnie Kogen. Dutton, 1969. ISBN 978-1-936404-64-3
  • My Son, the Daughter by Mort Drucker. Kanrom, 1964. ASIN: B000J1M1WK
  • Political Air current-Ups by Alexander Roman and Mort Drucker. Kanrom, 1962. ASIN: B000ZLP4MS
  • JFK Coloring Book by Alexander Roman and Mort Drucker. Kanrom, 1962. ISBN 978-1-936404-48-3

Illustrations for books by others [edit]

  • A Volume of Jean's Ain, Maria Schneider writing every bit Jean Teasdale. St. Martin's Griffin, 2010. ISBN 978-0-312-64268-6
  • Christopher Lee's Treasury of Terror, edited past Russ Jones. Pyramid, 1966. ASIN: B000B8GC3A

References [edit]

  1. ^ a b Hoberman, J. (April 9, 2020). "Mort Drucker, Master of the Mad Caricature, Is Dead at 91". The New York Times . Retrieved April 11, 2020.
  2. ^ Alphabetize of Trademarks Issued from the Usa Patent and Trademark Office. United States Patent and Trademark Office. 1995. Retrieved April nine, 2020. DRUCKER MORRIS WOODBURY NY aka MORT DRUCKER and ERICK MITCHELL OCOEE FL 1,901,999 pub iv iv 1995 Int Cl 41
  3. ^ "Mad magazine illustrator Mort Drucker dies at 91". apnews.com. The Associated Press. April ix, 2020. Retrieved April 9, 2020.
  4. ^ a b "Mort Drucker bio" (JPG). National Cartoonists Society. Retrieved August 31, 2010.
  5. ^ Richmond, Tom (March 30, 2009). "Happy 80th Birthday, Mort Drucker". Tom's MAD Blog!. MAD Magazine. Archived from the original on Dec 11, 2013. Retrieved April 23, 2015.
  6. ^ "Mort Drucker March 22, 1929 – April viii, 2020". www.firstcomicsnews.com. April 9, 2020. Retrieved April 11, 2020. (note expiry date anomaly in title)
  7. ^ Brown, Hannah (July 4, 2019). "Lovers of Jewish humor will mourn closing of Yiddish-infused 'Mad' magazine". The Jerusalem Mail . Retrieved Jan 17, 2021.
  8. ^ a b c d due east "Human Behind the Drawing Board", The Adventures of Bob Hope 87, 1963.
  9. ^ Almasy, Steve. "Mort Drucker, legendary caricaturist for Mad Mag for more than than 50 years, dies at 91". CNN . Retrieved April 11, 2020.
  10. ^ Schudel, Matt. "Mort Drucker, Mad magazine artist who drew humor from American life, dies at 91". The Washington Post . Retrieved April eleven, 2020.
  11. ^ "Celebrating the Life and Career of MAD and DC Artist Mort Drucker". DC Comics . Retrieved April xi, 2020.
  12. ^ Evanier, Mark, MAD Fine art, Watson-Guptill Publications, 2002
  13. ^ Jacobs, Frank, The Mad World of William Thou. Gaines, Lyle Stuart Inc., 1972, pgs. 45-46
  14. ^ "MAD Mag Contributors". users.pfw.edu . Retrieved April nine, 2020.
  15. ^ MAD'southward Greatest Artists: Mort Drucker, 2012, Running Press, pg. 12
  16. ^ Pacific Stars and Stripes, August 24, 1987.
  17. ^ "The Official Site of Adrian Belew". Adrian Belew . Retrieved Apr 9, 2020.
  18. ^ "Comic strip set in White House", Lethbridge Herald (Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada), July v, 1984.
  19. ^ Gary Dowell; Greg Holman; Don Mangus. James L. Halperin (ed.). HCA Comics Dallas Auction Catalog #824. Heritage Uppercase Corporation. p. 268 (link). ISBN978-i-59967-133-8.
  20. ^ Frederick News-Mail, June 12, 1991.
  21. ^ MAD's Greatest Artists: Mort Drucker, 2012, Running Press, pg. thirteen
  22. ^ "Mort Drucker". lambiek.cyberspace . Retrieved April 9, 2020.
  23. ^ Taylor, Chris, How Star Wars Conquered the Universe, Hachette Books, 2015, pg. 122
  24. ^ MAD magazine editor Nick Meglin, an influence on cartoonists and satire, has died, by David Menconi, in the News & Observer; published June four, 2018; retrieved April ix, 2020
  25. ^ "MAD nearly Star Wars". StarWars.com. June 23, 2014. Retrieved April ix, 2020.
  26. ^ Mad Nigh Star Wars, Del Rey Publishing, 2007, pg. iii in foreword
  27. ^ Clark, Marker, Star Wars FAQ: Everything Left to Know About the Trilogy That Changed the Movies, Adulation Books, 2015
  28. ^ MAD's Greatest Artists: Mort Drucker, 2012, Running Press, pg. seven
  29. ^ Spurgeon, Tom (May 22, 2012). "Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked". The Comics Reporter. Tom Spurgeon. Retrieved April 23, 2015.
  30. ^ "National Cartoonists Gild Awards". Retrieved Apr nine, 2020.
  31. ^ "Mort Drucker inducted into the Gild of Illustrators Hall of Fame". nationalcartoonists.com. June 24, 2017. Retrieved Apr 9, 2020.
  32. ^ "Inkpot Accolade". comic-con.org . Retrieved January 17, 2021.
  33. ^ Dorany, Pineda (April 9, 2020). "Mort Drucker, the iconic Mad magazine cartoonist, dies at 91". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved January 17, 2021.

External links [edit]

  • Mort Drucker official site
  • Mort Drucker's Mad contributions
  • Tom Richmond: "The Mort Drucker Caricature Story"
  • Lambiek Comiclopedia article.
  • Mort Drucker discography at Discogs

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