Tag: Jack Davis
Mike Mignola, Alison Bechdel among 2019 Harvey Awards Hall of Fame inductees
The inductees will be honored during the Harvey Awards ceremony at next week's New York Comic Con.
Weekend reading: Some Jack Davis and Richard Thompson art
We lost two of the great this week, Richard Thompson and Jack Davis. I'll have a fuller round-up of reactions and remembrances but in the meantime just a few piece of art to remind...
Jack Davis: A Selection of His Work
I was hooked on MAD Magazine in the Third Grade, when a classmate brought in a copy of the June 1979 issue for Show and Tell. With that monthly fix came an explosive introduction...
RIP Jack Davis
And just to make this day even more sorrowful in comics circles, legendary MAD cartoonist Jack Davis has passed away at age 91. Davis created some of the most memorable horror comics at EC, but then basically invented an entire style of caricature that was endlessly imitated throughout the 60s and 70s.
24 Hours of Halloween: EC Comics Cover Gallery
Could more be said? The gold standard of comics horror.
31 Days of Halloween: EC Comics on sale at Comixology
You can't spell "horror comics" without EC—these finely drawn masterpieces of the macabre set a standard for illustrated chills that were so unsettling, they nearly got the whole comics industry shut down.
Fantagraphics has been reprinting the...
MEGA-INTERVIEW: Cliff Galbraith on the Meteoric Rise of the Asbury Park Comicon
If you’ve been following the history of the Asbury Park Comicon, which opened only a year ago in March of 2012, you know it’s been a strange, yet rather astonishing ride, but imagine how...
31 Days of Halloween: Jack Davis, Animated, in 3-D!
A few weeks ago, Cartoon Brew publicized the new Blu-Ray release of Mad Monster Party, a rare Rankin-Bass motion picture. (I did intend to publicize the events, but then NYCC happened.) Among most pop-culture...
