Monday PSA: Cancer Paranoia?
Buried in the back of DC comics of the late ’80s and early ’90s were a bunch of full page black and white PSAs for the American Heart Association, the American Cancer Society, and diverse arms of the federal government. Most were unimaginative and bland –I suspect the result of being designed for standard print media and brought over later to comic books, a much more visual medium. (That’s not saying I won’t post them some time when I run out of better PSA ads, so consider yourself warned).
A few good ads did emerge from this period: the Comissioner Gordon ad I featured earlier, and this well-drawn and well-written gem featuring the instantly recognizable art of Jack Davis, best known for his work on EC comics, Mad Magazine, and assorted commercial projects (he designed the Raid roach, among others).
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