Will Elder

In my madness recently I made a note that I wanted to mention Will Elder in passing.  After all if it wasn’t for him, I may have never learned english.  I spent many 6 hour train rides, in the 70’s, between Montreal and Toronto reading Mad Magazine.  What I probably didn’t know at the time, is he was also the creator of Little Annie Fanny, which ran for 25 years in Playboy Magazine.  Not that I wasn’t reading Playboy at that age, but I probably couldn’t afford it and would have been too young to buy it!   But I knew the cartoon.

Will Elder passed away May 15th, at the age of 86 after a long battle with Parkinsons disease, leaving behind a legacy of work which is acknowledged through out the Internet by several reviewers and interest groups.  In 2003 he was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame.

Known for his Chicken Fat style, (he coined the phrase), he always put a lot of graphics in his background frames.  Enough to keep you busy and amused for hours!