tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20791823.post116002441392170279..comments2024-01-26T19:54:19.235-08:00Comments on So What? So There!: HeroesAaron Sowdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14398305479649660767noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20791823.post-36446751108577833162016-10-26T16:24:27.941-07:002016-10-26T16:24:27.941-07:00Wait what is master minds? Is it a comic or animat...Wait what is master minds? Is it a comic or animated series or... tried searching it up, but to no avail. I'm extremely curious, anybody know?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00334454423662427675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20791823.post-1160204913554267002006-10-07T00:08:00.000-07:002006-10-07T00:08:00.000-07:00That's a good story about Sergio! I'll see him at ...That's a good story about Sergio! I'll see him at the CAPS banquet in a few weeks, so I will ask him if it's true!Aaron Sowdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14398305479649660767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20791823.post-1160188099548459332006-10-06T19:28:00.000-07:002006-10-06T19:28:00.000-07:00and to add info about Sergio Aragones, He likes to...and to add info about Sergio Aragones, He likes to tell that He asked for the job in Mad but because there was none He offered himself to draw the bottoms and tops of the pages and that is how He got his job!!..at least is the urban legend!!<BR/><BR/>JESUS ANTONIOantoniohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01794086489705554212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20791823.post-1160157471115192332006-10-06T10:57:00.000-07:002006-10-06T10:57:00.000-07:00Mort Drucker is a genius. I love his art, but he d...Mort Drucker is a genius. I love his art, but he didn't influence me until later in life. When I was a kid, the more "realistic" cartoons weren't as appealing to my untrained eye. Don Martin was just the coolest to a little kid! <BR/><BR/>Antonio Prohias was born in Cuban, and Sergio Aragonés is Spanish, so prehaps that's why their cartoons where wordless and translated into any language.Aaron Sowdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14398305479649660767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20791823.post-1160117645129631972006-10-05T23:54:00.000-07:002006-10-05T23:54:00.000-07:00Aaron,Your Spy vs. Spy box art was spot on. When I...Aaron,<BR/>Your Spy vs. Spy box art was spot on. <BR/><BR/>When I was young and foolish I bought each issue of Mad (as well as the paperbacks) that I could get my slightly moist hands on. <BR/><BR/>I was certain that Mort Drucker was some sort of machine. No human could draw caricatures that well. As I recall the movie parodies were never especially well written, but between Drucker and Torres, they were sure drawn well.<BR/><BR/>I also seriously dug Al Jaffee’s spot drawings as well as his full-blown stories. There was one extended piece that he did on the secrets of stage magicians that I’m still astonished by to this day. <BR/><BR/>Everything Sergio did was a delight, but for pure joyful simplicity you can’t beat his marginal comments.<BR/><BR/>Bless Don Martin being thrown in the mix, otherwise there would be nothing for us budding cartoonists to copy and practice drawing. Good look trying to draw a Dave Berg piece or something by George Woodbridge.<BR/><BR/>Of course I read it every month, but there was a creepy quality to Spy vs. Spy that bugs me even to this day. These guys certainly weren’t American, right? Well, maybe the guy in white worked for the US. Either way, the tone of the art and the style of the characters had a strange foreign quality that made me uncomfortable. If asked to explain myself in detail, I would shift my weight from foot to foot, hem and haw for a while, then claim that I could hear my mother calling and that I had to go home. <BR/><BR/>Perhaps Spy vs. Spy bugged me because the characters didn’t have any pupils in their eyes. I thought I was over the whole thing of how much the characters bugged me, but then Dr. Pepper came out with those live action S vs. S commercials a few years back.<BR/><BR/>Again, nice box art. <BR/><BR/>FredFred Schillerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01888771079495878583noreply@blogger.com