Growing up in Northern New Jersey in the 1950's and 60's, I became enamored with cartoon characters and began drawing them all the time. I had some early help with this type of art. A very good friend of my parents was a cartoonist for the Saturday Evening Post, Esquire Magazine and the New York Herald Tribune, featuring his comic strip called 'Pops'. He taught me to draw, but I never worked hard enough at it. After several drawings of Alfred E. Newman, from MAD Magazine, the rest of life's demands seemed to take over. I still loved art and...more
