Today is the birthday of my best friend in the male division, Sergio Aragonés. Sergio is, of course, responsible for the clever cartoons which adorn the mastheads on this website. This is his main line of work and the one which I'm sure brings him most of his fame and popularity. When he has time between drawing me sitting at my computer, he has been known to draw a comic book called Groo the Wanderer and many, many other things. He also seems to have done something for MAD and whatever it is, he's been doing it for them since the Kennedy Administration.
I have known this man since either late 1968 or early 1969. During that time, I have known him to be funny and serious, happy and sad, calm and angry, up and down, left and right, to and fro, horizontal and vertical, and even back and forth. Especially back and forth.
But I have never known him to be mean and I have never known him to be dishonest. If he's been sneaking around at night and mistreating small animals and helpless old ladies, he's kept a darn good secret of it. Since he always seems to be able to do the impossible, I wouldn't put it past him.