![]() ![]() ![]() But the most perfect match of style and subject matter in his film poster work was also his major commercial breakthrough: the original theatrical posters for Stanley Kramer’s It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Jack created more than thirty-five of those posters, including ones for Woody Allen’s Bananas, Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye, and The Bad News Bears. His movie posters are a genre unto themselves-tours de force of cartooning and caricature, with instantly recognizable stars surrounded (but somehow never overwhelmed) by a gaggle of minor characters, sight gags, visual puns, and general chaos. He has drawn and painted countless comic books, gag cartoons, magazine covers, record covers, book covers, and bubblegum cards in a career spanning eight decades. The cartooning style he brought to MAD magazine in the fifties as one of its original artists, heavily imitated by those who followed, played a big part in defining its offbeat sensibility. ![]()
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