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Interviewed in Athens, Georgia, during a University of Georgia football game, the legendary EC and MAD cartoonist looks back on a career stretching from inking newspaper strips in New York, through EC's horror comics with Al Feldstein and Harvey Kurtzman, to HUMBUG, TRUMP, and decades of prolific freelance advertising, movie poster, and magazine illustration work. Davis reflects candidly that he is no longer proud of some of the more gruesome EC horror pages, though he notes drily that "the things coming out now are a lot worse." He attributes his lifelong speed to an innate looseness in his style and credits TIME Magazine covers — especially the Joe Namath cover and a Gerald Ford portrait — as the high-water mark of his career. He offers straightforward advice to aspiring cartoonists: work hard, enjoy what you're doing, and believe in yourself.