Book Details
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Spy vs. Spy: The Complete Casebook |
| Author: |
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Antonio Prohias |
| Times Read: |
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1 |
| Last Read: |
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07.01.05 |
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Notes History
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| 07.01.05 | During my MAD magazine phase, Psy vs. Spy was easily my favorite part of each issue. In fact, I think i have to credit those lethally clever adversaries as an influence in my current monochromatic obsession with design and art. Aside from being expertly drawn, I always loved the innocent/antique viewpoint in some of the strips, like how things such as gravity or inertia aren't really there in some of the gags, and how the spy plane wasdrawn with all these rivets and steel plates all over. Those comics were great, and this book collects all of them together. Well, not all of them all of them because now they look completely different, but all of them that the creator, Antonio Prohias, did. The "classics." Since this book was put together after Prohias' death, there are some essays from different MAD alumns as well as the few non-Spy vs. Spy stuff that Prohias did as well as an introduction explaining how he was really prominent in Cuba but had to flee after he drew cartoons calling Castro a commie. Reading all the comics together like this really blasted me back to the time when i went crazy for MAD. They still make me chuckle though, I still love them. Although for some reason I always root for the black spy. Somehow, White Spy's victories always seem cheap or unbelievable. Go, Black Spy! |
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