“The Lighter Side of ...” began in 1961 and appeared in 365 subsequent issues. “Dave was ... usually 15 different cartoon strips that ran on four or five pages. Berg often incorporated ...

LOS ANGELES -- Dave Berg, whose irreverent and affectionate cartoons for Mad magazine captured "The Lighter Side" of life in suburban America for more than 40 years, has died, his daughter said ...

Dave Berg, 81, a cartoonist who affectionately spoofed what he called “the human condition” in the pages of Mad magazine for more than 40 years, died in Los Angeles on May 16 of cancer.

LOS ANGELES Dave Berg ... He was 81. Mr. Berg, who began working for Mad as a free-lancer in 1956, created the satirical magazine’s enduring “The Lighter Side of” comic strip in 1961.