Chicken Fat

by Will Elder

by Will Elder
The companion volume to Will The Mad Playboy of Art. Elder coined the term "chicken fat" to describe the myriad background gags crammed into his stories for MAD , Panic , Little Annie Fanny , and others. This is a collection of those drawings (and sketches) and a variety of obscure commercial illustrations over the course of Elder's long career. Elder's stable of characters is also represented, including the more obscure Anthony Adverse. Plus, caricatures, studies of classic comics characters (including the iconic Wedding of Popeye and Olive Oyl), and more.

Genres: Comics, Art

96 pages, Paperback

First published April 26, 2006

About the author

William Elder (born Wolf William Eisenberg) was an American illustrator and comic book artist who worked in numerous areas of commercial art but is best known for a frantically funny cartoon style that helped launch Harvey Kurtzman's Mad comic book in 1952.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Elder

Reviews

[Tom G · Rating 2 out of 5]

basically an entire book of doodles. occasionally interesting as a look into the creative process of a talented artist, but otherwise only recommended for the will elder superfan

[David Shepherd · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another giant!

[Brent · Rating 5 out of 5]

Willie Elder rocks my world.