January 03, 2005

Kelly Freas, RIP

Joho notes that Mad Magazine illustrator Kelly Freas died today at age 82. He was responsible for many of the greatest early Mad Magazine covers. I grew up on these. Joho lists many of Freas' other accomplishments, including designing the official NASA patch for Skylab.

Here's the full AP report. (I was going to reproduce a low-fi vintage cover here in thumbnail size, but all the official website images are set at "no-copy", so I'll respect that urge for profit by his heirs.)

[via Joho the Blog]

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