RIP

[Dr Sardonicus]

MOD NOTE: The recent posts, discussing plans to privatize Social Security, have been moved to Soapbox, Mystery Economic Theater 2020.

[Spherical Cow]

Mort Drucker, caricaturist/cartoonist for Mad Magazine, and others. I was a huge fan of Mad's satire and cynicism "back in the day" (50+ years ago).

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/a...cker-dead.html

[Dr Sardonicus]

Originally Posted by Spherical Cow

Mort Drucker, caricaturist/cartoonist for Mad Magazine, and others. I was a huge fan of Mad's satire and cynicism "back in the day" (50+ years ago).

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/a...cker-dead.html

I fondly recall the TV and movie satires, which he generally illustrated. He usually drew in "outside" characters somewhere -- the first example that pops into my mind, in "Mission Ridiculous" -- the satire of the TV series "Mission Impossible," he piled on the repeated observation that the team's activities would be viewed as suspicious by nearly anyone, by drawing Adolph Hitler into one panel, with a thought bubble: "Very suspicious..."

I also remember a form of exaggeration he used in drawing his characters that took me a while to identify, though it was obvious he was doing something. He drew the heads too big in proportion to the bodies.

MAD Magazine did not run any advertisements. That meant their people didn't give a about who they might offend, and didn't even have to think about pulling their punches.

It was a magazine, take it for all in all, I shall not look upon its like again.

Rest in peace, Mort Drucker.

[xilman]

John Horton Conway


No official announcement from Princeton yet but the claim seems to have been checked out to some extent.

[xilman]

Stirling Moss

[xilman]

Tim Brooke-Taylor

They're dropping like flies today. To be fair, T B-T is the youngest at 79 of those I've noted.

[kriesel]

Originally Posted by xilman

Tim Brooke-Taylor

They're dropping like flies today. To be fair, T B-T is the youngest at 79 of those I've noted.

Given the current size of the world's population, and national life expectancy figures ~80 years or less, tens of millions of deaths annually is expected, and some fraction will be well known.

[xilman]

Originally Posted by xilman

John Horton Conway


No official announcement from Princeton yet but the claim seems to have been checked out to some extent.

From a source who may wish to remain anonymous but whom I urge to take public credit:

I understand he died because, due to social distancing, he had fewer than two live neighbours.

[Dr Sardonicus]

Originally Posted by xilman

From a source who may wish to remain anonymous but whom I urge to take public credit:

I understand he died because, due to social distancing, he had fewer than two live neighbours.

Credit where it's due, I found it on Reddit, posted by user NeutralPolitically

[ixfd64]

Originally Posted by xilman

John Horton Conway


No official announcement from Princeton yet but the claim seems to have been checked out to some extent.

Ugh... this one hurts.

[Batalov]

Oh, that is terrible!

But the Game Of Life will live forever!