SPY VS. SPY CREATOR ANTONIO PROHIAS DIES AT AGE 77
According to a Reuters report, Antonio Prohias, the Cuban-born cartoonist best known for creating the classic "Spy Vs. Spy" comic in MAD MAGAZINE, died at Mercy Hospital in Miami on Tuesday, Feb. 24. Prohias, who was 77, had been suffering from cancer.
Born in Cienfuegos, Cuba, Prohias moved to Havana when he was a baby. He studied art in school, but left to seek work at daily newspapers, winning the Juan Gualberto Gomez Award, considered the highest honor in Cuban cartooning, in 1946.
A founder of Cuba's famous Zig Zag humor magazine, Prohias was president of the Association of Cuban Cartoonists in 1959, when Fidel Castro came to power. Prohias's caricatures of Castro were denounced by the regime, and he moved to New York City in May 1960.
He was hired at MAD shortly after moving to New York as soon as he submitted the "Spy vs. Spy" strip, and continued to work for the magazine until 1990, when he retired and moved to Miami.
Prohias is survived by his former wife, three children and four grandchildren.
Mar. 2, 1998
ARCHIE GOODWIN DIES AT AGE 60
The comic book industry has lost one of its dearest members with the death of Archie Goodwin, who passed away on Sunday, Mar. 1 at the age of 60, following a long battle against cancer. A veteran of over 30 years in comics, Goodwin spent the past nine years as a group editor for DC Comics, overseeing a team of editors and personally editing titles that included STARMAN, AZRAEL, and BATMAN: LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT. Looking back over his long and distinguished career, it seems that he managed to work with almost every existing comics professional, either directly or indirectly, and inspire all of them to reach new heights in their chosen fields.
Goodwin was born in Kansas City, Mo., in 1937 and grew up in Tulsa, Okla. After graduating from New York City's School of Visual Arts in 1958, he began his comics career in 1965 as both a writer and editor-in-cChief for the Warren-published black-and-white magazines Creepy, Eerie, and Blazing Combat. He would divide his time between writing and editing comics for the rest of his life, excelling at both and continually raising the standards for the medium as a whole. As an editor, in
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