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His signature "Duck Edwing" is usually accompanied by a small picture of a duck, and duck calls are heard on his answering machine. Mad editor John Ficarra said, "He"s exactly how people picture a Mad magazine writer" In 2007, Edwing told an interviewer, "I always believed that when you choose your field, you should specialize. You never deviate. A native of Brooklyn, Edwing began drawing at age nine.
He started making the rounds with his cartoons after leaving the Navy in 1958, receiving $5 for his first sale in 1960.
His 49-year tenure with Mad spanned six decades, beginning with his first two gag cartoons for the magazine: an installment of the recurring "Scenes We"d Like to See" feature and a sequence called "Nuclear Jitters," both from Mad #70 (April 1962). His last piece appeared in the 504th issue in 2010.
Before drawing his own cartoons, Edwing was the uncredited writer for most of Don Martin"s full-page sequences. During Don Martin"s final years with Mad, Edwing began receiving a writer"s byline for many of the gags in Martin"s cartoons.
An example from 1986 is "Early One Evening In Las Vegas," in which a man finds that the only way to summon the fire department is to put a dollar bill in an alarm box which is built like a gambler"s slot machine.
After Martin"s death in 2000, Edwing was asked about their working relationship: Martin and I corresponded mostly with phone calls. The Mad editors did all the work by putting us together. I merely cheered Don up on a daily basis by telling him jokes, which had nothing to do with the work in front of him.
The man was a major talent.. l miss him.
