Back to that special issue of MADD magazine that was actually a parody of the King of Parody magazine, MAD. So I had a few pages and Matthew Imbriano got the front and back covers. Someone with the pen name "Jonesias" got the inside front cover. I do not know who he was but given the topic, Chemistry, I suspect he was a Chemical Engineering student. (I did not bother writing "he or she" because it was very likely that it was a guy. In the Engineering School, ratio of women to men was 1:5.)
In case you are not familiar with the Spy vs. Spy series in MAD magazine, it was originally done by Antonio Prohías and features the Black Spy and the White Spy, always inflicting harm on each other via contraptions and booby-traps.
In the last post about MADD, did you figure out the message the Fold-In reveals? "Go to a real school." Without a dorm, a gym, or a campus, e.g. a pedestrian plaza for students to walk from one building to another without the worry of being run over by a city bus, Cooper Union was not the typical college experience to some.
As mentioned in earlier posts, there were other Engineering students who drew for the April's Fool issue of the Cooper Pioneer school newspaper. I do not recall knowing any of them except for Matthew Imbriano. He did the cover page and the back cover, which is a fold-in à la Al Jaffee.
Matt and I were Mechanical Engineering students and we had many classes together. More than once he showed me his drawings, perhaps made during class or some other times that he was bored. After all these years I cannot recall the details of what he drew but one drawing I remember very well. It depicts Professor Chinitz, probably in a thermodynamic class, "holding" a quantity of energy in his hand, with the quantity of energy looking like a small energy ball often seen in Street Fighter or Dragon Ball. I can draw decent pictures but am not so good at caricatures, or at least not from memory. Matt was very good at drawing caricatures and the picture of Prof. Chinitz was very accurate. I wonder if he's making a living with his talent, or at least still make use of it.
