More photos of Famous Cartoonists… with me in them too.
Aug23
Here’s a photo of the famous and wonderful Jack Davis- star of Mad Magazine and more books and ads and posters and comic books and stuff than you can conceive that one person did in a single lifetime. He’s my hero. That’s why I leapt into the photo as it was being taken and then ‘appropriated’ the camera’s memory card so the shot couldn’t be erased as being useless. Look! It looks like Mr. Jack and I actually met and talked and stuff!
This was taken at the National Cartoonist Society’s Southeast Chapter Fall Meeting (or maybe at a Reuben Division Judging weekend) at the University of Georgia- timed to coincide with the Jack Davis Award being given to Sergio Aragones. It was really, really awesome.
Have you ever had the honor of meeting Joe Kubert?
Yessir. He used to come personally when the Joe Kubert School did weekend seminars at UT Chattanooga and Nashville. Thank heaven I went to those. I’d never have learned to do what I do without Mr. Kubert and his school’s teachers. Thanks, then, to him and to Irwin Hasen, Hy Eisman, and Mr. Kubert’s sons. I even met Mel Lazarus during one of the seminars- he was in town for something else and came by to say hello to Mr. Kubert. The autograph I begged is very large and cool.
Awesome!