Jack Davis, American cartoonist, illustrator, and the last surviving artist from the EC horror comics imprint, has died from complications relating to a stroke, The New York Times reports. He was 91. Born John Burton Davis Jr., Davis was perhaps best known as one of the founding cartoonists for MAD in 1952. He was first published at the age of 12 with a submission for Tip Top Comics. The Atlanta native attended the University of Georgia on the G.I. Bill, where he did art for both the campus newspaper and the bawdy off-campus humor publication Bullsheet. After graduation, Davis remained in his hometown, working as a cartoonist intern at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Eventually, though, the artist made his way to New York in a car paid for with money he made illustrating a Coca-Cola training manual, and began working as an inker on The Saint comic strip. Advertisement From there, Davis began working as a Freelancer for William Gaine’s EC Comics. EC Comics was best known … [Read more...] about R.I.P. Jack Davis, illustrator for