“Forgotten Hollywood”- Mad Man Drucker…
Manny P. here…
“`Mort Drucker was the Mad Magazine cartoonist who spoofed politicians, celebrities, and popular culture. Besides Mad, Drucker drew for Time Magazine, and DC Comics.
“`Drucker was born in Brooklyn in 1929, and he began working professionally as a cartoonist on Bert Whitman’s newspaper strip Debbie Dean in 1947 thanks to the recommendation from legendary cartoonist, Will Eisner. He assembled his portfolio of comics work over the next ten years.
MORT DRUCKER
“`Mad Magazine was a cultural institution for many baby boomers. Drucker joined Mad in the mid-1950s, and he stayed there well into the twenty-first century. Few major events or public figures escaped his satire. Being drawn by Mort became a show business rite of passage, with Michael J. Fox once telling Johnny Carson that he knew he had made it when he appeared in a Drucker cartoon.
“`Some of his illustrations, including a Time cover drawing of Richard Nixon and Mao Zedong playing table tennis, are featured in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D. C. His admirers included Peanuts creator Charles M Schulz and Star Wars filmmaker George Lucas. The latter personally asked Drucker to draw the poster for his 1973 flick, American Graffiti. In 2017, Drucker was inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame.
“`Mort Drucker was ninety-one.
Until next time> “never forget”
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