MAD Magazine illustrator Jack Davis dies
Jack Davis, the iconic cartoonist who fleshed out the grisly horror titles at the heart of the ‘50s crusade against comics and humored the readers of Mad Magazine, has died, Athens, Georgia's WGAU radio reported.
He was 91.
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Davis eventually found even greater fame when he started contributing work for another of Gaines’ fledgling publications — a humor magazine called “Mad.” He contributed to the first 30 issues, and then returned in the mid ‘60s and became a mainstay for several decades.
His wacky doodlings couldn’t be contained on the page: Davis contributed a number of memorable movie posters to cinemas, including “American Graffiti,” “Animal House,” “It’s a Mad, Mad World” and Woody Allen’s “Bananas.”
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You know his art:
Cross gently, Jack, and THANK YOU!!!
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My brother and I read them, too, though we probably didn't understand half of it. That is very sad...
I imagine they are still somewhere in the basement. And I still can remember a lot of their parody songs! 
Mad was so far ahead of it's time. I remember I was eleven years old when "Like Mad" came out, with Alfred E. Newman as a beatnik. From then on I was hooked. I also loved the cartooning of Mort Drucker. His specialty was political characters like JFK.
R.I.P Jack.
Davis loved our alma mater, and did a whole lot of UGA-themed artwork. He is as big a loss to UGA fans as Larry Munson was.
We are really going to miss him.
RIP Jack, I bet you made me smile a thousand times.
MAD Magazine was one of the mags that made sense of the world for me a s kid in rural New England, my older sister, rest her soul, bought every issue for many years and I would always borrow it. And this the week of the year that she passed last year.
It's almost too stereotypical to be believable, but I really was doing the hide-a-MAD-Magazine-inside-the-textbook, and got caught. 
