Will Elder, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Will Elder

American illustrator

Date of Birth: 22-Sep-1921

Place of Birth: The Bronx, New York, United States

Date of Death: 14-May-2008

Profession: illustrator, comics artist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

William Elder (born Wolf William Eisenberg; September 22, 1921 – May 15, 2008) 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. Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner said, "He was a zany, and a lovable one." Longtime Mad writer-cartoonist Al Jaffee called Elder "Absolutely brilliant...
he was the star from the beginning.
He had a feel for the kind of satire that eventually spread everywhere."Elder was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2003.
In 2018, the Comics Reporter's Tom Spurgeon described Elder as "an amazing artist, a sneaky spot-holder on the top 20 of the 20th century."