You drove us mad with laughter over your Mad magazine illustrations.
In your earliest days, your comic-book work for Hopalong Cassidy, the Lone Ranger and Bob Hope (all for DC) showed the grand extent of your talent, paving the way for decades of campy homages and endearing likenesses. Your caricatures grew ever steady as a result, manifesting in mainstream movie posters and even coloring books, in which you covered such political figures as John Kennedy, Ronald Reagan and Oliver North.
Your Mad parody of "The Empire Strikes Back" was so effective that Lucasfilm issued a cease and desist, only to discover soon thereafter that George Lucas had already mailed Mad a letter praising your affectionate spoof.
You brightened our lives with irony, smarts and glee, Mr. Drucker, and for that, your artistic commentary will endlessly epitomize the essence of our times.
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