Wired: Jack Davis Calls It Quits At Age 90



Wired has a short, independently-sourced piece up here that the great Jack Davis, one of the five greatest living cartoonists, has decided to stop working because of his feeling that the work he's creating in the second half of his eighth decade in professional comics isn't up to snuff.

Davis is one of the all-time great cartoonists, almost sneakily so, with astonishing runs at EC, with MAD, with the Kurtzman magazine efforts more generally, with humor comics more generally, with book and magazine illustration, and with film poster illustration. He shares with many of the all-time talents the ability to make humorous illustration and compelling picture-narratives, and stands alone by the sheer quality he brought to a number of classic skill-sets: he was a strong caricaturist and a top-notch designer; he could even do convincing sports comics and illustration without relying on a kind of grim-faced, hyper-realistic rendering -- something I'm not sure anyone else ever did.

Davis is with Marie Severin the last surviving contributor to the art of the EC horror books. He is also, if his last few years of retrospectives and show honors was an accurate representation, a great gentleman of cartooning. I wish him luck in however he spends each and every hour from this time forward, and am grateful to have lived an entire lifetime during a significant portion of his amazing career. Thank you, Mr. Davis.
 
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