Sergio Aragonés

Last night cartoonist Sergio Aragonés gave a lecture at UGA in Athens, GA. Truth is, having grown up on Groo and his comics in MAD, I would have been happy for him to just flip through some old images he'd done through the years. Instead, he talked about how he got into the business, how amazing it was to work for MAD in its prime, and told a few drinking stories. But the highlight of the talk was when he just started sketching comics for us. It actually got to where he would get people in the crowd to throw out topics and then he would come up with pantomime comics, like a mixture of . It was amazing. Each drawing was completed in roughly 35 seconds, and they were all clever and got lots of laughs. The guy really is a genius.