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A friend of Mort Drucker’s, cartoonist John Reiner, emails me: “I’m sorry to say that Mort passed away last night. I saw him last Friday-he was having trouble breathing- Was not the Coronavirus as he was quarantined for weeks with no other outside contact....
2/“... Due to the current circumstances we can’t have a Shiva or service of any kind. Plans are cremation and a memorial later when things get back to normal.”
Reiner said Mort’s last words to him were “I’m the luckiest man-I’ve had a wonderful life.”
Reiner said Mort’s last words to him were “I’m the luckiest man-I’ve had a wonderful life.”
Some of his classics include this from 1962:
1965:
1965:
He could pack so much into just one panel — from 1972
