It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World 1963

I imagine Jack Davis made this poster, It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, with pen and ink and colour, with the kind of comic exuberance that just leaps off the page. The whole world’s crammed with characters, climbing over each other, all striving to grab that suitcase full of cash, right? You can feel Davis’s hand moving quickly, creating these figures with a kind of joyful abandon. It’s all in the details—the way he draws each face, each expression, it tells a whole story. I feel like Davis is just laughing, throwing every wild idea he has onto the page. As a painter, that's what I strive for – to capture that raw energy, that sense of fun. It’s not just illustration; it’s a total performance, like, ‘how much can I cram into this one space and still make it sing?’ The more I look, the more I see—a reminder that making art is like having a conversation with the world, full of surprises.