[Groop] Rumors of Sergio's death are greatly exaggerated

[Pengyfelix at aol.com]

So I was in class tonight and my professor said something to impugn the 
nature of comic books.  Being the good comic book reader (and Comic Book Legal 
Defense Fund member) that I am, I came to the defense of comics.  During the class 
break, he asked me about graphic novels and I suggested that, if he was 
looking for artwork integral to a story in a graphic novel/comic book format, he 
would do good to check out Sergio's works. The conversation went as follows:

prof:  "Sergio, how do you spell that?"
me: "Aragones"
prof:  "Who's he?"
me:  "You know the marginals in MAD?  He draws them."
prof:  "Didn't he just die?"
me:  "I'll have to email and ask him."

This is not the first time I've heard of someone thinking Sergio is dead, 
though I think it's the first time it's happened to my face.  The only 
explanation I could come up with for my professor is that he probably was thinking of 
Antonio Prohias, who died not too terribly many years ago.  However one would 
think that the two of them should be pretty easy to distinguish between.  With 
Sergio's prodigious output, one would think that it would be pretty apparent 
that he is still very much alive and working, so why do people seem to regularly 
believe he is not?

Janet


http://janetharriett.blogspot.com
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