Sergio Aragonés has drawn for the publication since he arrived in New York from Mexico 60 years ago‚ and at age 85 he’s contributed to its 70th anniversary issue: “Drawing has become like walking.”
, most of this special edition will be original content, including a Johnny Sampson back-page “fold-in”: a film parody of Robert Pattinson as “The Batman”; and a mini-essay) He says he’s been blessed with six fruitful decades at the iconic magazine, which reached millions of monthly readers at its 1970s peak and influenced writers at such shows as “The Daily Show” and “The Simpsons,” as well as Judd Apatow andAragonés’s high standard for consistent creativity is legendary; for decades, he...
What you must understand about the beloved Aragonés, his colleagues say, is that beneath all his charisma is an ever-flowing fount of imagination. “I suspect if Sergio were to go and donate blood, ink would come out of him,” says John Ficarra, former MAD editor in chief. “He is incapable of not drawing.”Aragonés acknowledges that he does not suffer writer’s block because cartooning is second nature: “Drawing has become like walking.
Aragonés was born in the Spanish province of Castellon, in Sant Mateu, but within six months, his mother fled the Spanish Civil War — Sergio in tow — while his father fought for the Republic. The family reunited a few years later, but by 1942 they were World War II refugees in Vichy France. They headed to the North American nation that would take them in: “I have a debt with Mexico I will never be able to repay.”By the mid-1950s in Mexico City, Aragonés was reading the fledgling MAD.
He studied famous gag cartoonists like Virgil Partch, but another vital step in his development was meeting a mime troupe in Mexico City. He soon studied mime with future French-Chilean filmmaker and cartoonist Alejandro Jodorowsky — not to become an actor, but to master the art of pantomime within his drawing.
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