Archive for August 16th, 2004
The Shadow Knows
One of the funniest features from my Mad magazine collection was The Shadow Knows. If I recall correctly, it was done by Sergio Aragones, and involved cartoons of people in different situations. In each picture, the people’s shadows were drawn to represent the people’s true colors or feelings. For instance, a man is drawn walking [...]
C’mon, Aussie, C’mon!
You can take the man out of Australia, but you can’t take Australia out of the man. That is my conclusion during the first Olympic Games that I have lived outside of my birthplace.
During the past few days, my wife has had to put up with cries of ‘Go, Thorpedo, go!” and “You littl’ ripper!”, [...]
























































