- Born
- Died
- Birth nameJohn Burton Davis
- Jack Davis was born on December 2, 1924 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He was a writer, known for Creepy (2012), Mad Monster Party? (1967) and The King Kong Show (1966). He was married to Dena. He died on July 27, 2016 in Athens, Georgia, USA.
- SpouseDena(? - July 27, 2016) (his death, 2 children)
- Jack Davis is best known, of course, as one of the "usual gang of idiots" on the contributor staff of MAD Magazine. Before MAD, Davis was an employee of Bill Gaines' EC Comics, known for working on war comics and the (now) infamous horror comics. Gaines, of course, turned to MAD after the Comics Code Authority pulled the rug out from under his other magazines.
- (1950s-2014) Illustrated and contributed to MAD Magazine until his retirement in late 2014.
- He received the National Cartoonists Society's Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996 and the Reuben Award in 2000.
- Besides his work for Mad magazine, he drew posters for films and designed a stamp for the US Postal Service in 1989.
- He attended the University of Georgia, where he drew for the campus newspaper. His first success after college was a job illustrating a Coca-Cola training manual. He went to New York and worked as a freelance cartoonist. He was hired by EC Comics and contributed to several of their titles, including Tales From The Crypt and Incredible Science Fiction.
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