Showing posts with label Antonio Prohías. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Antonio Prohías. Show all posts

Saturday, July 2, 2022

Spy vs. Spy: Antonio Prohias et al.

If one were fortunate enough to obtain an original "layout for a published project" (so we are told) illustrated by Mad's Antonio Prohias of an agitated White Spy sitting in a movie theater, should one have other artists and luminaries of the magazine also sign—and draw on—the page? Perhaps not, but it's hard to argue that a "jam page" fitting this description didn't turn out extremely well. Sergio Aragonés put his contribution (including a sketch of Alfred E. Neuman) on the projected screen. Kelly Freas, Marie Severin, and Peter Kuper added other faces: respectively, of Freas himself, of William M. Gaines, and of one of the spies. That's quite a coup: having spies drawn by both Prohias and Kuper, his successor, on the same page. As a bonus, there are signatures by Jack Davis, Will Elder, Mort Drucker, Kyle Baker, Al Feldstein, Angelo Torres, Annie M. Gaines, Al Jaffee, and Paul Peter Porges. Is it any wonder the eBay seller is asking $1,600 for this? 






The usual gang of idiots
eBay listing accessed July 1, 2022

The usual gang of idiots
eBay item description






Note:  I'd love to hear from anyone who can identify the published source of this Spy vs. Spy layout drawing.



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Thursday, October 21, 2021

Peter Kuper's Spy vs. Spy: The Top Secret Files!—Signed

Congratulations to cartoonist Peter Kuper, the 2021 recipient of the Reuben Award for the category of Magazine/Newspaper Illustration. Among his many accomplishments, Kuper has been drawing the comic strip Spy vs. Spy for Mad magazine since 1997. The series was originally created by expatriate Cuban cartoonist Antonio Prohías and first appeared in Mad #60 dated January 1961. Spy vs. Spy has been a perennial feature of Mad since the days of the Cold War. In his current interview on the Cartoon Pad podcast, Kuper reveals that he has completed what he expects is the final new strip of the decades-long run. A signed book and souvenir drawing of the two spies back to back are herein archived as they appeared not all that long ago on eBay.

 
Peter Kuper
eBay listing ended October 15, 2021




Peter Kuper
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Best Newspaper/Magazine Illustration 2021 Reuben Awards










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