What you say -- John Severin drew for Cracked not for MAD and that's absolutely true mostly. Severin was one of the original MAD Men, but took his skills to Cracked and created inside that little often ignored universe some of the finest satirical art we've ever seen. Severin (not unlike his sister Marie) could do series and funny, and like his sibling was fantastic at capturing likenesses. This made ideal for doing all those parodies.
At MAD each guy had his role, at Cracked, it seemed all those guys were John Severin. Now that's not really fair to great talents like Bill Ward and Howard Nostrand, but unlike MAD which had many famous names attached to it, Cracked is known almost exclusively around the Dojo for the masterful work of John Severin.
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To be honest I had forgotten about John's Mad work. Not only one of my favourite cartoonists but an artist that would be in my top 10/20 artists as well.
ReplyDeleteSeverin is one of those talents who is so relentlessly good all the time that you took him for granted. Cracked was picked up by yours truly because of John Severin's amazing covers which are a record of the pop culture of past decades. Did any artist draw Fonzie more than Severin?
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