Sergio Aragones' Groo: Library
Sergio Aragones has enjoyed a long, ink-stained life making people all over the world laugh at his silly-and often MAD-antics. Few entertainers in the world share Aragonés' far-reaching appeal, and his success is a result of not only his easily recognizable talent for finding side-splitting humor in everyday settings; it also has a lot to do with his chosen medium-cartooning. After his parents emigrated from Spain to Mexico in the early 1940s, Aragonés became an avid artist, sketching, drawing, and lampooning his way through Catholic school and through four years of architectural studies at the University of Mexico. He even experimented with short stints studying pantomime under the legendary Alexandro Jodorowsky, and working as a clown in an aquatic ballet show. Still, the young artist felt he was destined for greater things, and set off for New York in 1962 with twenty dollars in his pocket and his portfolio at his side. With that portfolio, Aragonés wooed the editors of MAD Magazine and launched himself headlong into cartoon history. Sergio Aragonés has been published in every issue of MAD Magazine since his work first appeared on its pages, and in the thirty-plus years since, he's provided animation for television shows including Laugh-In (he acted, too!), and TV Bloopers and Practical Jokes, and he's been recognized with countless national and international awards thanking him for his contributions to the arts. Oh, and he's done some comics, too, such as Groo, Louder Than Words, and Boogeyman (there's more, of course) for Dark Horse.