Will Elder
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William Elder (born Wolf William Eisenberg; September 22, 1921 – May 15, 2008)[2] was an American illustrator and comic book artist who worked in numerous areas of commercial art but is best known for a frantically funny cartoon style that helped launch Harvey Kurtzman's Mad comic book in 1952.
Will Elder | |
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Born | Wolf William Eisenberg (1921-09-22)September 22, 1921 Bronx, New York, United States |
Died | May 15, 2008(2008-05-15) (aged 86) Rockleigh, New Jersey, United States |
Nationality | American |
Notable works | Mad Little Annie Fanny |
Awards | Inkpot Award (2000)[1] |
Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner said, "He was a zany, and a lovable one."[3] Longtime Mad writer-cartoonist Al Jaffee called Elder "Absolutely brilliant... he was the star from the beginning. He had a feel for the kind of satire that eventually spread everywhere."[3]
Elder was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2003. In 2018, the Comics Reporter's Tom Spurgeon described Elder as "an amazing artist, a sneaky spot-holder on the top 20 of the 20th century".[4]