Feels like I've been doing way too many of these lately.
Mort Drucker was one of the greatest caricaturists of all time, an inspirations to generations of artists, and a delight to generations of MAD fans. His work was deft, goofy, and seemingly effortless – but you don't get that good without an incredible amount of work.
Also, this (from his New York Times obituary) is amazing:
"Mad’s 1981 parody of THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, THE EMPIRE STRIKES OUT, prompted the Lucasfilm legal department to send a cease-and-desist letter demanding that the issue be recalled. Mad replied by sending a copy of another letter they had received the previous month — from George Lucas, offering to buy the original artwork for the EMPIRE parody and comparing Mort Drucker to Leonardo da Vinci.”
Thank you for living, Mort Drucker. You were the best of madmen.
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