I’ve had the pleasure of meeting Sergio at a small comic con. He was so kind to my youngest daughter who taking selfies with everyone and we had a great conversation with him. If you stumble on this he does another great interview on the Cartoonists Kayfabe channel. He seems to have an endless amount of great stories.
Yes! I also met him at a con, and it was a real delight. He's a really friendly guy. It took some real looking for his table. My friend I was with was asking me "what's he look like?" And all I could tell her was "He looks exactly like an old cartoonist named Sergio ought to look." And when she saw him, she knew exactly what I meant.
As a kid I used to read MAD magazine and I always looked forward to Sergio's section with a few pages of his comics dedicated to a single topic. His ability to draw and express humor is incredible.
This was so fantastic! I've never actually seen Sergio Aragones interviewed before. I read a lot of Mad when I was a kid in the 90s, and he was such a big influence on me, but it wasn't until watching this now as an adult that I could really see just how much I idolized his work. So this was just really great, thank you very much for putting this up!
Something I loved so much about his section in mad as a kid was the lack of dialogue. It makes so much sense that he developed that skill by learning pantomime!
I think both guys are very sympathetic. 💖 I love Sergios cartoons without words and yes it‘s right that it‘s necessary to use the cliches for that cartoons! 🙂
Super nice guy. He was at a convention around the time Groo came out (early 80's) and was walking around the show. Friend and I walked up to him and my friend asked if he could get an autograph and I remember Sergio asked him what his name was and chatted a little. I always remembered how cool he was.
He has such a clear view of the world. So much wisdom and he's so at peace with himself. I wish i could be more like him. I loved his work ever since i got a paper back collection of his Mad magazine margins as a child. I read it until it fell apart completely. And i'm still waiting for the Groo omnibus that was announced 15 years ago.
Loved and looked forward to the margin cartoons. I would read the mag, then go back and read the margins. Best for last. Then he would have full page sets. Just the funniest stuff ever. My most memorable margin cartoons was a mosquito that sucked the blood of a hippie and started hallucinating.
I have been looking for the Will Eisner for many months now but so far no luck. I agree this one I love, and also the ones with the Romitas and Todd, thank you!
It's not on my channel, but it should still be on RU-vid; please look up Comic Book Greats: The Romitas for my favorite Stan appearance on one of these shows. The chemistry he had with John Romita, both on the page and on screen was truly wonderful.
Amazing how such simpler times created such geniuses, yet in today's digital age, many of us are struggling to find even basic meaning in our lives. Art is pretty much dead today, and so are artists.
PROBLEM: Practicing at home for 8 hours a day for 20 years or whatever doesn't pay the bills. It's all done on FAITH, in HOPES that SOMEONE SOMEDAY will pay you for it. Lots of pianists are wasting their time too. They will graduate with piano degrees and teach out of their homes when they could have done that without a four year degree. It's a viscous cycle, learning a skill, then all you can do with it is teach it to someone else, like art and music teachers in public school.
The truth is, great artists and musicians were doing it 8 or more hours a day growing up, in their vital formative years, for the pure fun of it, and this is how they got really good. School should actually be abolished imo, considering that guys like Matt Groening had to become cartoonists by secretly drawing without getting in trouble with the teacher. The entire education system is just a jobs machine for mediocrities, who then suppress young talents (the doodler, the class clown, etc) out of their own bitterness from having to live a boring failed life. Skipping school and even abolishing school = smart things, but sadly too smart for our dumb idiocracy.
Does anyone know what year this was actually produced you know filmed because if he remembers the Spanish Civil War that was before World War II so this wasn't done like 2016 he looks too young and soda stand
This video series is from 1991 or so. Geoff Johns wasn't in the industry yet, Mark Waid was just transitioning from being an editor to being a freelancer, and Alex Ross was probably busy not getting paid by NOW Comics (and wasn't a big deal yet). Now, Grant Morrison was around, certainly, but this series is largely predicated upon people who Stan Lee was at least acquainted with at the time.
what about Frank Miller? was he in the industry by the time this videos came out? I mean i have seen people from MAD but barely any DC except for the one and only Bon Kane
