John Burton Davis Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Jack Davis was born on December 2, 1924 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA as John Burton Davis. He is known for his work on The Coneheads (1983), The Mad Magazine TV Special (1974) and The Enchanted World of Danny Kaye: The Emperor's New Clothes (1972).
He attended the University of Georgia, where he drew for the campus newspaper. His first success after college was a job illustrating a Coca-Cola training manual. He went to New York and worked as a freelance cartoonist. He was hired by EC Comics and contributed to several of their titles, including Tales From The Crypt and Incredible Science Fiction.
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Besides his work for Mad magazine, he drew posters for films and designed a stamp for the US Postal Service in 1989.
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He received the National Cartoonists Society's Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996 and the Reuben Award in 2000.
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Still drawing and contributing to MAD [September 2001]
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Jack Davis is bestknown, of course, as one of the "usual gang of idiots" on the contributor staff of MAD Magazine. Before MAD, Davis was an employee of Bill Gaines' EC Comics, known for working on war comics and the (now) infamous horror comics. Gaines, of course, turned to MAD after the Comics Code Authority pulled the rug out from uner his other magazines.
Animation Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Coneheads
1983
TV Short character designer
The Enchanted World of Danny Kaye: The Emperor's New Clothes
1972
TV Movie character designer
Jackson 5ive
1971
TV Series character designer - 1 episode
King Kong
1966
TV Series character designer - 1 episode
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Mad Magazine TV Special
1974
TV Movie inspired by
Art Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
1963
poster artist - uncredited
Production Designer
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Coneheads
1983
TV Short
Miscellaneous
Title
Year
Status
Character
Mad Monster Party?
1967
puppet designer
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
Bird of Steel!
special thanks filming
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Tales from the Crypt: From Comic Books to Television
2004
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Known for movies
The Coneheads (1983) as Animation Department
The Enchanted World of Danny Kaye: The Emperor's New Clothes (1972) as Animation Department
$15 Million
