Mort Drucker

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Mort Drucker (born March 22, 1929) is an American caricaturist and comics writer best known as a writer in Mad, where he specialized in satires on the leading television and television series.

When Johnny Carson asked Michael J. in 1985, he asked him in a Tonight Show appearance. "When did you even know you'd made it in show business?" Fox asks. "When Mort Drucker drew my head," Fox said.

Personal life

Drucker was born in Brooklyn, New York City, with some sources claiming his birth date as March 22, 1929, and some as March 29. He was the son of Sarah (Spielvogel), a homemaker, and Edward Drucker, a businessman. His family was Jewish. He attended Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn. Barbara, his future wife, was married shortly after she graduated, and he met him there. The couple eventually moved to Long Island, Syosset, where they raised two children, Laurie and Melanie; their family grew with three grandchildren.

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Career

Drucker entered the comics industry by assisting Bert Whitman on the Publishers-Hall newspaper comic strip Debbie Dean in 1947, based on Will Eisner's suggestion. He later joined National Periodical Publications (DC Comics), where he served as a retoucher. Drucker also ghosted "The Mountain Boys" for Esquire magazine while in Washington, D.C., Paul Webb's regular gag panel. Drucker left his DC staff gig early in the 1950s and began doing full-time freelance for a number of comic book publishers, including Dell, Atlas, and St. John's, as well as several humor and war titles for his former employer.

Drucker escaped Mad's founding editor Harvey Kurtzman in the fall of 1956, just shy of the death of the Mad's founding editor Harvey Kurtzman. Publisher Bill Gaines told Drucker that if the Brooklyn Dodgers won the game, he would be given a drawing assignment. His first visit to the magazine's offices coincided with a World Series broadcast. The Dodgers were crowned. Although Drucker's rumored audition process may have been instructive, it was nevertheless a good anecdote. "We should have hired him anyway," Gaines admitted years later.

Drucker had arrived at the Madhouse with pages from his Hopalong Cassidy comic book art for DC Comics and some of his "Mountain Boys" strips, as well as a joking "little situation" starring The Lone Ranger and Tonto, which he had specifically chosen for the interview. Despite the fact that this work was unlike the likenesses and continuity with which he would be best known for, the Mad staff responded positively. Mad associate editor Nick Meglin, who admitted, "I didn't know how good he was at caricatures." The first to review Drucker's portfolio was Mad associate editor Nick Meglin. Not at first. But then, he wasn't that good back then." Drucker said he wanted to be a painter... to get paid for drawing something." "I knew I'd found my calling," Drucker said. Mad did not regularly have television and film satires at the time of Drucker's arrival. Editor Al Feldstein credited Drucker's style and ability for his decision to include them in every issue.

Mad had a difficult time finding promotional photos that Drucker could use for his drawings for well over a decade. When he was illustrating Mad parodies, Drucker's colleague Angelo Torres took a camera into movie theaters and snapped photos of the movie. A generation of Mad enthusiasts grew up and some became Hollywood publicists, making Drucker's research simpler.

Drucker had the longest uninterrupted career of any Mad artist by the time he came back to Madness 55 years ago. Drucker's most bylined articles by no Mad artist who does not also write his own stuff. With more than 400, he has the most bylined articles by any Mad artist who does not write his own work.

Drucker also worked for DC, illustrating War Stories, among other things. He began drawing The Adventures of Bob Hope comic book in 1959 and spent four years in DC. Drucker cites this time in his career because it honed his attention on caricature.

Drucker co-authored the highly successful JFK Coloring Book (Kanrom Publishers), which sold 2,500,000 copies in 1962. Drucker produced similar coloring books on Ollie North and Ronald Reagan two decades ago. Universal's American Graffiti (1973), directed by George Lucas, has been included in the film trailer, with Drucker also presenting the high school yearbook photos.

Drucker also pursued jobs in television animation, movie poster art, and magazine illustration, some of which are in the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution. His album covers include artwork for the pop band The Bears and the Anthrax album State of Euphoria, as well as comedy albums in the vein of his own "JFK Coloring Book" such as "The LBJ Menagerie" and "The New First Family, 1968." In addition to books containing his own work, he has illustrated numerous books by others, including children's books, humor books, and satire. He created the prop cartoons used in Rumple's 1957 Broadway musical comedy.

Drucker appeared on the daily comic strip Benchley from 1984 to 1987. The plot revolved around Benchley, who served as the assistant and admirer of new President Ronald Reagan, who was on the White House. "No one ever did a strip about the government," Dumas said. It's a wonderful place to set a strip. In the White House, there's so much room for humour." The Register and Tribune Syndicate syndicated Benchley.

Drucker created the Supercup for Target in 1990. Mitchell Erick, the United Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Association's president, and engineer Mitchell Erick designed the Frugies (pronounced fru-jees) in June to be the National Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Month in June. Lord Mushroom, Pepe L'Pepper, Penelope Pear, and Adam Apple were among the campaign's many frogs.

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