Mort Drucker made a career of subversive satiric images.
Drucker joined Mad Magazine’s gallery of scoundrels in 1956. He left 55 years later – the longest uninterrupted tenure of any Mad artist. While he had initially come from the straightforward comics and illustration world, he influenced a generation with his caricatures.
A truly prolific and highly creative artist, Drucker extended his hand in numerous media and outlets – coloring books, animation, album covers and even movie posters.
Mort left this canvas behind on April 9, 2020 at age 91. He was admired by fans and colleagues. One of those included the inimitable Charles Schulz, who once wrote, “I don’t know how he does it… I think he draws everything the way we would all like to draw.”
Probably the most ingenious and spot on praise comes from Comics Reporter’s Tom Spurgeon, “The Way he draws James Caan’s eyebrow is worth some folks’ entire careers.” Indeed.
