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I read a short chapter of The Mutiny on the H.M.S. Bounty this morning and thought briefly about the problems of swimming from a boat to a small island. This musing was accompanied by a mental flash of an image of a mariner floundering in choppy surf. I identified the image a moment later as coming from "Robinson Crusoe!" in MAD Comics.
This caused me to wonder how many of the go-to images in my mind can be traced directly to Will Elder. I think the time I spent pondering the first handful of MAD paperbacks (the five 'originals' plus two more that had a strong presence of stories from the comic books) engraved those pictures right onto the bony structure around my brain, where they will outlast the soft tissue.
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I read a short chapter of The Mutiny on the H.M.S. Bounty this morning and thought briefly about the problems of swimming from a boat to a small island. This musing was accompanied by a mental flash of an image of a mariner floundering in choppy surf. I identified the image a moment later as coming from "Robinson Crusoe!" in MAD Comics.
This caused me to wonder how many of the go-to images in my mind can be traced directly to Will Elder. I think the time I spent pondering the first handful of MAD paperbacks (the five 'originals' plus two more that had a strong presence of stories from the comic books) engraved those pictures right onto the bony structure around my brain, where they will outlast the soft tissue.
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