While talking with James Owen at Comic-Con about the many artists who’ve done caricatures of me over the years—it’s amazing what an annoying kid with a sketchpad can accomplish—I happened to mention one drawing by an accomplished EC artist that was less than stellar. I promised to him that I’d share that one here, but before I do, I’d rather post a few more that actually turned out well.

I’ve already told you about my meeting with New York Daily News cartoonist Bill Kresse, which led to my getting a portrait from Joe Papin. Here’s a drawing done by Kresse himself, for the magazine Kong, which was an underground publication classmate Eric Shalit and I started while attending South Shore High School in Brooklyn.

Bill did this drawing to wish us luck, and we published it in our first issue during the summer of 1972. And now it’s become something I wouldn’t have been able to predict a third of a century ago—my newest LJ icon!