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.
13 Facts About Sam Viviano
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Sam Viviano has developed a reputation for his ability to do crowd scenes.
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Sam Viviano soon came to the realization that, in order to compete in the field, he needed to choose a specialty, stating that what one sacrifices in width and breadth one gains in depth.
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Sam Viviano decided that he enjoyed doing caricature the most, and took out ads featuring his caricature work in trade directories such as Showcase and Black Book.
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Sam Viviano has stated that he was so nervous about his first job for Mad that he made the illustration twice.
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Sam Viviano has since done work for corporations and for the advertising industry.
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Sam Viviano has contributed to Rolling Stone, Family Weekly, Reader's Digest and Consumer Reports.
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Sam Viviano taught a caricature class at Manhattan's School of Visual Arts from 1981 to 1992, where he expressed the viewpoint that the goal of caricature is to use exaggeration to express an inner truth about an individual.
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In 1994, Mad editors Nick Meglin and John Ficarra invited Sam Viviano to come on staff at the magazine, but he declined in order to focus on his freelance career.
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Sam Viviano currently oversees a staff of three that designs, layouts, and produces the art that appears in Mad.
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Sam Viviano is listed in the most recent edition of The World Encyclopedia of Cartoons by Maurice Horn.
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Sam Viviano is married to a New York physician, and is known to include his wife and daughter, as well as various other members of his family, in the backgrounds of scenes he illustrates.
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Sam Viviano is a cousin to New Testament scholar and author Benedict Viviano.