Monday, February 24, 2014

The Greatest American Copywriter Wasn't A "Mad Man".


He is a Midwestern son of a preacher who as an adman vomited before presentations, not from liquor like that hack Don Draper, but from fear—fear that a new client wouldn't have the balls to buy his ballsy ads. Read more about him, and see many of his best ads in my weekly post on VICE.

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Anonymous Kirkistan said...

Thanks for remembering Tom McElligott. He and Pat Fallon had just started their shop when I first moved to Minneapolis. McElligott's work always captured my attention--and everyone else's. He was one of the first to help me see copywriting as an art/craft/purpose.

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