Kent Gamble – RIP
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Cartoonist and caricaturist Kent Gamble has passed away.
David Kent Gamble
December 14, 1953 – February 13, 2026
Kent Gamble, cartoonist and caricaturist for satire magazines, has passed away due to complications of Alzheimers. From the obituary:
At a young age, Kent’s mother described his energy as wild and boisterous, which foreshadowed his eventual love for self-expression through the art of drawing cartoons; particularly caricatures … He drew cartoons for the student body magazine, La Ventana, and later for nationally distributed Cracked and Crazy magazines, and for many other publications. Perhaps Kent’s most notable published piece was the gangster-spoof paperback, “The Touchables” both written and illustrated by him.
…drawing professionally was among his greatest passions, as well as: taking in films, history, Texas Tech sports, and the jumble puzzle in the Avalanche Journal. For as humorous and fun as he was, Kent was an extremely grounded and pragmatic person; always reliable. When he wasn’t spending time with his wife, Dana Gamble, or collecting the original artworks of Mort Drucker (of MAD magazine), or watching reruns of his mid-century television favorites, he worked as President of Stewart Title of Lubbock for over 35 years.
I became aware of Kent Gamble in the last half of the 1970s when he was contributing to Crazy, Marvel’s satire magazine where he did miscellaneous filler eventually, utilizing his caricature talents, working their movie and TV parodies. He would continue there until 1983 and then jump to Cracked for a couple years and then there again twenty years later.
The closest he got to MAD was for The MAD Panic fanzine where he would be the regular cover artist from 1998 to 2002 and The Journal of MADness zine around the same time.
He also became a contributor to Thwack, another satire magazine, in the mid-2000s.
A few more Kent Gamble illustrations at his AA Reps page.
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