January 1961 turned out to be the turning point in Coker's career. Coker also contributed to Hugh Hefner's Playboy, where he created both erotic cartoons as well as parodies of other comics, like Charles M. He worked for Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Pageant, Look, McCall's and in 1957 became an editorial cartoonist for the New York Enquirer. Coker started off as a designer of greeting cards for Hallmark in the 1950s and 1960s, often in collaboration with writer Phil Hahn. While he made illustrated contributions for the student paper he preferred drawing advertisements, since these were better paid. He majored in drawing and painting at the University of Kansas.
He was about twelve when he published his first cartoon in the cartoon contest feature of the magazine The Open Road for Boys. Paul Coker was born in 1929 in Lawrence, Kansas. The artist additionally designed various characters for the animation company Rankin/Bass Productions. Outside Mad, Coker also drew the short-lived daily gag comics, 'Lancelot' (scripted by Frank Ridgeway, 1970-1971) and 'Horace and Buggy' (scripted by Duck Edwing, 1971).
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He co-created recurring features like 'A Mad Peak/Peek Through the Microscope' (1961-1962, 1964, 1966), 'The Sights and Sounds of the U.S.A.' (1964-1965), 'Mad Beastlies' (1964-1965), 'Only a Republican/Democrat Could Possibly Believe.' (1995/2000/2004) and his most famous series 'Horrifying Clichés' (1964-2012). Coker was easily recognizable by his loose, scratchy drawing style. He was one of the veteran "usual gang of idiots" at Mad Magazine, and a mainstay in their pages from 1961 up until 2018. Paul Coker, Jr., usually shortened to Paul Coker, was an American comic artist. 'Unabridged Sports Clichés' (Mad, issue #499, 2009).
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