In a non-COVID year, I'd be packing for Comic-Con right now but everything is different now in CoronaWorld. Nevertheless, I'm kinda busy so I figured that this week, I'd reprise a few past posts about Comic-Cons back in the good ol' days when we actually went to them. This post ran here on July 28, 2010…
Super Retailer Joe Ferrara took the pic below of Comedy Legend Chuck McCann posing with the three cartoonists who competed in Quick Draw! at the Comic-Con on Saturday. The three fast 'n' funny sketchers were, left to right, Sergio Aragonés, William Stout and Scott Shaw, who spells his name "Scott Shaw!" with the exclamation point. Quick Draw! is always great…and I can say that because it's not great because of me. We get three speedy cartoonists and I throw challenges at them and more than 2000 people watch as they draw and howl with laughter.
Here's one thing that happened there. Our cartoonists onstage were Sergio Aragonés, William Stout and Scott Shaw. I then brought three more up: Katie Cook, Sam Viviano and Tom Richmond. The idea was that one cartoonist would draw the top half of someone — a character, a monster, an alien, an animal, whatever — and then we'd cover over that drawing. Another cartoonist, who hadn't seen what the first one drew, would then draw the bottom half of the "someone" without having any idea what the top half was. Then we'd uncover the two halves and see what resulted. Here is one of the drawings done that way. Tom Richmond, who is the star caricaturist in the new generation of MAD, drew this…
We then covered Tom's drawing — everything but the belt — and had Sergio draw the bottom half. Remember now: Sergio had no idea what Tom had drawn…
Once Sergio was done, we unveiled the joint creation…
See? That's how it's done!