This prolific comic artist was born on this day in 1921. He was one of the original five founding artists of MAD magazine. He began his career at the tender age of ten, when he sold comics to a local paper. He went on to do a long stint with Marvel comics, illustrating for their war and western comics.

severin also did some dirty drawings, theres some in the clean cartoonists dirty drawings book. he signed those powers-powers in johns middle name.