Career
Foreign Jack Rickard who edited Boardwatch magazine, see Boardwatch
Original Rickard work appeared in more than 175 issues as well as on many paperback covers. After attending the Rochester Institute of Technology on an art scholarship, Rickard did commercial art for Chaite Studios in the 1950s. He contributed to Charlton Comics and worked as an assistant on the Li"l Abner comic strip.
Soon after, he became a mainstay in the advertising field, where his work attracted the attention of "s editors.
He began illustrating for the humor magazine in 1961. In 1966–1967, he collaborated with Mell Lazarus on a newspaper comic strip, Pauline McPeril (aka The Adventures of Pauline McPeril) for Publishers-Hall Syndicate.
Lazarus used the pseudonym "Fulton" on this strip, which followed the misadventures of blonde secret agent McPeril. Editor Nick Meglin commented, "I think of all the artists we"ve had, we miss Jack the most.
Jack had so many styles, such a total command of all techniques.
He was especially useful when we wanted something to have a real rounded, 3-Doctorate look to lieutenant" After the 1980 death of Norman Mingo, Rickard became "s main cover artist until his own death three years later. He also illustrated for the original paperbacks, including Frank Jacobs" About Sports (1972). Some of his work was reprinted in Richard Linklater"s Dazed and Confused: Teenage Nostalgia.
Instant and Cool 70"s Memorabilia (Master of Computer Applications, 1993), a tie-in with Linklater"s 1993 film, Dazed and Confused.
Rickard"s style was in demand for movie promotions. He created the poster art for two Sidney Poitier movies, Uptown Saturday Night and Let"s Do lieutenant Again, and for two Peter Sellers films, the 1963 film The Pink Panther and the 1974 Soft Bedfordshire, Hard Battles (aka Party for Hitler and Undercovers Hero).
He created both the original movie poster for Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice and its parody on the cover of #137.
