Morris "Mort" Drucker was an American caricaturist and comics artist best known as a contributor for over five decades in Mad, where he specialized in satires on the leading feature films and television series.
20 Facts About Mort Drucker
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Mort Drucker was the son of Sarah, a homemaker, and Edward Drucker, a businessman.
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Mort Drucker entered the comics field by assisting Bert Whitman on the Publishers-Hall newspaper comic strip Debbie Dean in 1947 when he was 18, based on a recommendation from Will Eisner.
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Mort Drucker then joined the staff of National Periodical Publications, where he worked as a retoucher.
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Early in the 1950s, Mort Drucker left his DC staff gig and began doing full-time freelance work for a number of comic book publishers such as Dell, Atlas and St John's, as well as several humor and war titles for his former employer.
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Mort Drucker's first visit to the magazine's offices coincided with a World Series broadcast, and publisher Bill Gaines told Drucker that if the Brooklyn Dodgers won the game, he would be given a drawing assignment.
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Mort Drucker had arrived at the Mad offices with pages from his Hopalong Cassidy comic book work for DC Comics and some of his "Mountain Boys" strips, as well as a humorous "little situation" featuring The Lone Ranger and Tonto that he had specifically drawn for the interview.
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Mort Drucker has the most bylined articles by any Mad artist who does not write his own material, with more than 400.
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Mort Drucker remained active for DC, illustrating War Stories, among other titles.
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In 1962, Mort Drucker teamed with the prolific humor writer Paul Laikin on the highly successful JFK Coloring Book, which sold 2,500,000 copies.
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Two decades later, Mort Drucker illustrated similar coloring books on Ollie North and Ronald Reagan.
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Mort Drucker pursued assignments in television animation, movie poster art and magazine illustration, including covers for Time, some of which are in the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution.
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Mort Drucker drew the prop cartoons used in the 1957 Broadway musical comedy, Rumple.
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Between 1984 and 1987, Mort Drucker collaborated with Jerry Dumas on the daily comic strip Benchley.
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In 2012, Mort Drucker discussed his art style, and how he applied it to his Mad assignments:.
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Mort Drucker had worked on the advertising campaign for Lucas' earlier film American Graffiti.
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Mort Drucker's Time covers are in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery.
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Mort Drucker was recognized for his work with the National Cartoonists Society Special Features Award, its Reuben Award, Eisner Award Hall of Fame and induction into the Society's Hall of Fame.
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Mort Drucker was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the Art Institute of Boston.
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Mort Drucker died on April 9,2020, in his Woodbury, New York home.