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Duck Edwing
Don "Duck" Edwing (born 1934) is a gag cartoonist whose work has appeared for years in ''Mad''. 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. I chose 'sick puppy.' "〔http://www.news-journalonline.com/special/snapshots/2007/122407.htm〕
==Early life and career==
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.〔(Witters, Jim. "Artist adds jokes, trivia to Mad experience," ''Daytona News-Journal''. December 23, 2007. )〕 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.〔(Mad's Idiot of the Issue: FAQ )〕 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.〔http://www.landsurvival.com/mad/1980's/1986/MAD267.pdf〕 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. I marveled at how he would take my chicken scratch sketches of a gag and transform them into a 2-D, animated, spectacular scene. The man was a major talent... l miss him.〔
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