" The magazine's art director, Sam Viviano, has suggested that historically, Mad was at its best " whenever you first started reading it.

According to School of Visual Arts caricature instructor Sam Viviano, the term refers only to depictions of real-life people, and not to cartoon fabrications of fictional characters, which do not possess objective sets of physiognomic features to draw upon for reference, or to anthropomorphic depictions of inanimate objects such as automobiles or coffee mugs.

" Contrasting current art techniques and Jaffee's approach, MADs art director, Sam Viviano, said, " I think part of the brilliance of the fold-in is lost on the younger generations who are so used to Photoshop and being able to do stuff like that on a computer.

Caricature of Dick DeBartolo, drawn by Sam Viviano

In recent years the International Society of Caricature Artists annual convention has featured guests of honor such as Sam Viviano, Dan Adel, Tom Richmond, Hermann Mejia, Mark Fredrickson and Bill Plympton.

* 1953 – Sam Kinison, American comedian ( d. 1992 )

* 1875 – Sam De Grasse, Canadian actor ( d. 1953 )

* April 10 – Sam Kinison, American comedian ( b. 1953 )

* June 12 – Sam De Grasse, Canadian actor ( d. 1953 )

Screenwriters Sam Rolfe and Harold Jack Bloom were nominated for the 1953 Best Screenplay Academy Award.

* Most fumbles recovered, game: 4 ; Otto Graham, Cleveland Browns vs. New York Giants, October 25, 1953 ; Sam Etcheverry, St. Louis Cardinals vs. New York Giants, September 17, 1961 ; Roman Gabriel, Los Angeles Rams vs. San Francisco 49ers, October 12, 1969 ; Joe Ferguson, Buffalo Bills vs. Miami Dolphins, September 18, 1977 ; Randall Cunningham, Philadelphia Eagles vs. Oakland Raiders, November 30, 1986 ( OT ).

In 1953, he earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from Sam Houston State University where he was editor of the school newspaper, The Houstonian.

* Sam De Grasses ( 1875 – 1953 ), actor

Samuel Burl " Sam " Kinison ( December 8, 1953 – April 10, 1992 ) was an American stand-up comedian and actor.

* Dooley Wilson ( 1886 – 1953 ), actor, musician, played Sam in Casablanca

Trinquiers maquis contributed to the successful evacuation of the fortified airhead at Na San, in August 1953, and the reoccupation of the Phong Saly and Sam Neua provinces.

Notably, the last episode of Quantum Leap takes place on August 8, 1953, Sam Beckett's birthday, and the reverse of the last two digits of Bellisario's own birth year.

After attending the University of Southern California, where he played baseball under coach Sam Barry and was member of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity, Beradino was a major league player from 1939 to 1953 ( except for three years of military service during World War II, from 1942 to 1945 ).

* Sam Keen ( Class of 1953 ): Author, professor of philosophy and religion, and former contributing editor of Psychology Today

Sarmite Drosma " Sam " Bulte, PC ( born September 27, 1953 ) is a Latvian-Canadian lawyer, advocate and politician.

For example, in the 1953 short, Hare Trimmed, she starred as a woman who was being fought over by two suitors, Yosemite Sam and Bugs Bunny ( the latter out to thwart the former's evil plan ).

* Poul Anderson's 1953 novelette Sam Hall features a disgruntled bureaucrat who creates fake records about a rebel named Sam Hall ( after the song ) who fights against the totalitarian government.

In 1953 Sir Sam married Merriell E. M.

In 1953 Sonia married Sam Rykiel, owner of a boutique selling elegant clothing.

In November 1953, MGM announced it had assigned producer Sam Zimbalist to the picture and hired screenwriter Karl Tunberg to write it.

Leveraging the popularity of golf to promote their cars, Nash Motors and Nash dealers sponsored what the automaker described as " more than 20 major golf tournaments across the country " in 1953, and golfer Sam Snead was shown with his Nash-Healey roadster on the cover of the June 1953 issue of Nash News.

* Sam Catron ( 1953 – 2002 ), assassinated sheriff of Pulaski County, Kentucky, USA

In 1945, probably almost every American not only knew who Sam Spade was, but had some kind of emotional feeling about him.

Sam Rayburn was a good man, a good American, and, third, a good Democrat.

And Sam Rayburn is a great man -- one who will go down in American history as a truly great leader of the Nation.

I pay my personal tribute to Sam Rayburn, stalwart Texan and great American, not only because today he establishes a record of having served as Speaker of the House of Representatives more than twice as long as Henry Clay, but because of the contributions he has made to the welfare of the people of the Nation during his almost half century of service as a Member of Congress.

Sam Rayburn is one of the greatest American public figures in the history of our country and I consider that I have been singly honored in the privilege of knowing Sam Rayburn and sharing with him the rights and obligations of a Member of the House of Representatives in the Congress of the United States.

I prefer to speak, however, of Sam Rayburn, the person, rather than Sam Rayburn, the American institution.

On September 16, Sam Rayburn will have served as Speaker twice as long as any predecessor and I am proud to join with others in marking this date, and in expressing my esteem for that notable American, Sam Rayburn.

* 1944 – Sam Elliott, American actor

* 1968 – Sam Fogarino, American drummer ( Interpol and Magnetic Morning )

* 1961 – Sam Champion, American weatherman

* 1974 – Sam Endicott, American singer-songwriter and director ( The Bravery )

* 1947 – Sam Rosen, American sportscaster

* 1954 – Sam J. Jones, American actor

* 1947 – Sam Anderson, American actor

* 1880 – Sam Crawford, American baseball player ( d. 1968 )

* Uncle Sam ( initials U. S .) is a common national personification of the American government that according to legend came into use during the War of 1812 and was supposedly named for Samuel Wilson a meat packer in New York, who supplied rations for the soldiers.

With the American Revolutionary War came " Brother Jonathan " as another personification and finally after the War of 1812 Uncle Sam appeared.

* 1975 – Sam Doumit, American actress

Army of Darkness, also titled Bruce Campbell vs Army of Darkness, Evil Dead III: Army of Darkness or just Evil Dead III, is a 1992 American comedy horror film directed by Sam Raimi.

* 1961 – Sam Robards, American actor

* 1969 – Magic Sam, American blues guitarist and singer ( b. 1937 )