George Lois, ad man and creator of iconic Esquire covers, dies at 91
Briefly

On the cover of its April 1968 issue of Esquire, art director George Lois depicts an image of Muhammad Ali to dramatize the boxer's persecution for his personal beliefs.(George Lois/Esquire/Hearst Magazine Media, Inc.)George Lois, a Madison Avenue ad maven who in the 1960s injected counterculture ethos into Esquire magazine's covers, wounding boxer and anti-war activist Muhammad Ali with arrows and drowning Andy Warhol in a can of Campbell's soup to depict the collapse of avant-garde art, died Nov. 18 at his home in New York City.
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