EC Comics artist/writer and longtime
Mad Magazine editor Al Feldstein passed away at age 88 earlier this week.
He was one of those key figures in comic book history: at the center of the comic book/juvenille delinquency scare that led to creation of the Comics Code (and the demise of EC) in the 1950s, and as multi-generational shaper/warper of minds via his work on
Mad from the mid-50s through the mid-80s.
As a faithful
Mad reader throughout the 70s and 80s, I owe at least some of my skewed/skeptical worldview to his influence.
You can read a lengthy 2013
Comics Journal interview with Feldstein
here, and view his obituary
here.
But, before you check out those links, scroll down for a look at some of Feldstein's seminal covers for EC's sci-fi and horror mags:
