Mort Drucker, whose distinctive caricatures of celebrities appeared in the pages of Mad Magazine for more than five decades, has died. He was 91.
Drucker's death was not a result of the novel coronavirus although he was having trouble breathing, Tapper tweeted.The cartoonist had been quarantined for weeks with no outside contact, his friend, cartoonist John Reiner, told Tapper."Reiner said Mort's last words to him were 'I'm the luckiest man. I've had a wonderful life," Tapper wrote. In 2015, Drucker was the first winner of the National Cartoonists Society Medal of Honor award.
— MAD Magazine April 9, 2020 Drucker told The Star-Ledger newspaper of Newark, New Jersey, that he never had art lessons. He started drawing as a 7-year-old, a fan of Popeye, he said in 2012. That year a collection of his Mad Magazine work was published with the title,"Mad's Greatest Artists: Mort Drucker -- Five Decades of His Finest Works." He also did covers for Time magazine and illustrated the movie poster for the film"American Graffiti.
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