Jack Davis was one of the founders of the Mad Magazine group, an incredible illustrator with a totally warped sense of humor. He was very much an idol in my American high school years (I also went to high school in Germany!). It was one of my greatest heartbreaks to be rejected by him and Dave Berg when they flew to Denver to interview me! Apparently, they never conceived of the idea that the submitter of so much warped material could be a young German kid still in in high school and completely drug free!
Sigh ...
But, I continued to enjoy their irreverent take on life and western culture! One of my favorites was always the lampooning of popular movies! Oh how I would laugh and laugh, then share them my friends Randy and Robbie over pizza and root beer at Shakey's on Friday nights. Someone always ended up blowing root beer out of their nose ..... Heh, heh, heh, heh!
And this was one of my favorite Jack Davis products:
I might be the product of my Danish great-uncle's upbringing, an American mining engineer and an impressive Christian man later in life - but my humor is all Jack Davis!
:^)
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