Growing up in a MAD world

As a kid in the 1970s, I was obsessed with MAD Magazine. I learned to draw by imitating artists like Mort Drucker, Angelo Torres, and Jack Davis, my idols. I set up a caricature booth at local fairs and charged a buck-fifty. I even drew and printed my own comic parody knockoffs of Mad and Wacky Packages (Kooky Magazine and Kooky Stickers) and sold them in the schoolyard. This was my world from age…