Today in Comics History, March 22: Happy birthday, Mort Drucker!

Born today in 1929, a day for national celebration: Mort Drucker, longtime artist for DC Comics (Big Town, The Adventures of Bob Hope, Mystery in Space, War Stories, Our Army at War, and more), comic strips (Benchley) and, you guessed it: MAD magazine, natch!

We here 'round Comics Oughta Be Fun! headquarters have a couple Rules of Comics. The first one is "Comics Oughta Be Fun!" The second one is "You ain't nobody 'til you've been drawn by Mort Drucker." So, how much more has Mort Drucker made it than when...Mort Drucker drew Mort Drucker?!?


from MAD #266 (October 1986), art by Mort Drcuker
Happy birthday, Mort!


covers of (L) Mad [Super] Special #52 (Fall 1985), painting by Richard Williams;
(R) Mad's Greatest Artists: Mort Drucker (Running Press, November 2012)