Save for the Michelangelesque Jack Kirby I held most spinner-rack jobbers in snooty, critical contempt. Timeless genius was defined in every issue of MAD, the poor boy's 35 cent Louvre and national gallery, whereby Drucker, Davis, and Woodbridge descended from Mt Olympus to show we, the more critically discriminating 13 year old beggar children, what immortal draftsmanship looked like. Fistfights defended the honor of Davis over Drucker or vise-visa. My smeary pencil copies of Mort Drucker's Star Trek parody were not just amateur scratches but a sincere attempt to unite with the deity. JDA
My priorities also lay with MAD in those days, as you know. Sadly, I was alone among my peer group in this. The only artists worth discussing, according to my unenlightened schoolyard crew, were the ones crafting tales of cosmic anguish for Marvel musclemen.
Save for the Michelangelesque Jack Kirby I held most spinner-rack jobbers in snooty, critical contempt. Timeless genius was defined in every issue of MAD, the poor boy's 35 cent Louvre and national gallery, whereby Drucker, Davis, and Woodbridge descended from Mt Olympus to show we, the more critically discriminating 13 year old beggar children, what immortal draftsmanship looked like. Fistfights defended the honor of Davis over Drucker or vise-visa. My smeary pencil copies of Mort Drucker's Star Trek parody were not just amateur scratches but a sincere attempt to unite with the deity. JDA
My priorities also lay with MAD in those days, as you know. Sadly, I was alone among my peer group in this. The only artists worth discussing, according to my unenlightened schoolyard crew, were the ones crafting tales of cosmic anguish for Marvel musclemen.