Mort Drucker, 'Mad' magazine-defining cartoonist, dead at age 91


By AGENCY

Mort Drucker, the cartoonist whose Hollywood caricatures came to define Mad magazine, died Wednesday night at age 91.

Mort Drucker, the cartoonist whose Hollywood caricatures came to define Mad magazine, died Wednesday night at age 91.

Drucker died at his home in Woodbury, N.Y., The Associated Press reported. Drucker’s cause of death is not yet known, though his daughter Laurie Bachner told the AP that he fell ill last week and had difficulty breathing.

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