THE GRIEF OF PAINTING

A few weeks ago, I offered to help a girl friend of mine to pick up a very large and heavy painting from her home and take it to a gallery as a consignment for sale. While I was trying to pack it with bubble wrap, the frame tilted a bit, hit an armchair and suffered a slight rip of the canvas. The restoration of the artwork cost me close to a thousand dollars.  The moral of the story? 

Never try to pick up a heavy framed painting by yourself and NEVER try to impress a girl friend!

MORT DRUCKER!

Mort Drucker was born March 22,1929 in Brooklyn, New York.
His work and caricatures at MAD Magazine, beginning in 1956, soon became legendary.  Mort's artwork was the first thing that attracted me to Mad Magazine back in the Sixties, and I became an ardent fan of his drawings.  Mort Drucker's on-target depictions of celebrities were my inspiration to become a full time cartoonist.
Of course I never aspired to emulate him and my drawing style differs sharply from his, but he was the reason I kept buying Mad even into the 2000s even though I believed the rest of the magazine was going rapidly downhill.  When Mort ceased to submit his work to the magazine, I stopped buying it.
Anyway, happy 90th birthday to one of my heroes...the one and only MORT DRUCKER!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mort_Drucker

Goodbye, Jack Davis! (1924-2016)