One of America's great cartoonists is 90 years old today. If a magic genie told me I could have the power to draw like anyone…well, at one point in my life I probably would have picked Wally Wood and then just stayed home all day and night drawing naked women. Then I would have considered Jack Kirby but I don't think even a magic genie could arrange that. I might well have selected Jack Davis, who was and still is incapable of drawing something that isn't lively and interesting and when he tried to be funny, funny.
He's also a very nice man who has been at it…well, he was in the first issue of MAD 62 years ago and he'd already been doing great work in comics for several years before that. His work has appeared everywhere — movie posters, book covers, Time Magazine, toys — and become a genuine part of Americana. I don't think he's on the Internet to read this but just in case he is: Thank you, Jack Davis, for all the wonderful pictures.