Tributes to cartoonist and Mad magazine illustrator Jack Davis

Cartoonist illustrator aged 91.

He was a founding member of the satirical publication in 1952 and his work appeared in almost every issue for 40 years.

John Ficarra, editor of Mad, Davis as “one of the greats”.

He said: “There wasn’t anything Jack couldn’t do. Front covers, caricatures, sports scenes, monsters – his comedic range was just incredible.

“His ability to put energy and motion into his drawings, his use of crosshatching and Jack Mad Davis magazine has died hailed and brush work, and his bold use of colour made him truly one of the greats.”

Sam Viviano, Mad art director, said: “More than any one piece, it was Jack’s immediately recognisable style that revolutionised comic illustration.”

Davis also drew posters for movies It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Woody Allen’s film Bananas and The Long Goodbye, and designed a stamp for US Postal Service in 1989, breaking official postal policy by sneaking a self-portrait into the image, despite the rule banning portrayals of living people.