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