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SAM VIVIANO

b. 1953Active: 1969–2026

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AS WRITER

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AS ARTIST

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KEY ISSUES

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SERIES

Sam Viviano is an American caricature artist and art director. Viviano's caricatures are known for their wide jaws, which Viviano has explained is a result of his incorporation of side views as well as front views into his distortions of the human face. He has also developed a reputation for his ability to do crowd scenes. Explaining his twice-yearly covers for Institutional Investor magazine, Viviano has said that his upper limit is sixty caricatures in nine days.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

NOTABLE WORKS: KEY ISSUES

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MAD #504 cover

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#504

Earliest catalogued appearance of Bebop.

MAD #259 cover

MAD

#259

Earliest catalogued appearances of Terminator and Tom Hanks.

MAD #320 cover

MAD

#320

Earliest catalogued appearance of Hillary Clinton.

MAD #260 cover

MAD

#260

Earliest catalogued appearances of Emmett Brown, Marty McFly, Biff Tannen, and 2 more.

MAD #503 cover

MAD

#503

Earliest catalogued appearance of Whiplash (Vanko).

MAD #299 cover

MAD

#299

Earliest catalogued appearances of Bart Simpson, Homer Simpson, William Shatner, and 3 more.

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Appearing most often in their credited issues

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Credits

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9 ISSUES

MAD #223 cover
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#223

MAD #259 cover
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#259

MAD #260 cover
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#260

MAD #266 cover
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#266

MAD #299 cover

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#299

MAD #320 cover
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#320

MAD #501 cover
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#501

MAD #503 cover
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#503

MAD #504 cover
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#504