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JACK DAVIS "A MASTER"
The best way to discuss Jack Davis is with visuals and both of these books have quite a
bit! Hank is working on a 3rd book right now that deals more with the stories and
background on the man.
Jack can do it all! He has done beautiful color paintings for the covers of Time Magazine
, TV Guide, Playboy, Mad Magazine and countless Record Album Covers and One-Sheet Movie
posters including It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World.
In the artist community...He is a living legend. He is now semi-retired in his home
in Georgia! He continues to do art for the Georgia Bulldogs and frequent their games!
He is an avid Golfer and likes to go out on his boat and spot a gator or two.
Once Jack's work graced the covers of Time Magazine, he became very sought after and
one of the most recognizable artists of the century. His art showed a lot of movement
and humor and lengthy fingers and feet. You could always spot a Jack Davis and many
copy cat artists followed.
Jack did peices of art in both The Enchanted World Of Rankin/Bass and The Making Of A
Rankin/Bass Holiday Classic: Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer. Without Jack, these books
and the Rankin/Bass resurgence would probably not have come to be. It was in a phone
conversation with Jack that I inquired about Arthur and Jules, and Jack pointed the way.
To this day, Jack still works on projects for Arthur and Arthur recently visited Jack in
Georgia.
Jack Davis is one of our very favorites!
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We have known Jack for over 10 years now and he has always been a gracious man with his
time and a super modest person. For Rankin/Bass he has designed Mad Monster Party, the
Willy McBean & His Magic Machine poster, the King Kong series, the Jackson Five series,
The Enchanted World Of Danny Kaye, a poster for Mouse On The Mayflower, The Coneheads and
a few other various things. He is one of Arthur Rankin's favorite artists. Arthur was
attracted to his pen and ink work that he saw in a book on Abe Lincoln that Jack had illustrated.
Jack was able to take his work to the advertising world and there was no turning back.
Over the last 30 years or so...MOST of Jack's work could be found in ADS, TRADE MAGAZINES
and variuos commercial work. This was where the money could be found so it was a natural
progression. In his early days, he did work for Tales Of The Crypt and all the EC
Magazines that shocked the world and were ultimately censored. He shared a close
relationship with Harvey Kurtzman and appeared in all of Harvey's subsequent magazines
after Mad including Help! and Trump.
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