SAM VIVIANO

Sam Viviano is an award-winning illustrator and art director. Born in Detroit and a graduate of the University of Michigan, he moved to New York in the mid-seventies to pursue a career in the arts. For over 20 years, he was a successful illustrator specializing in caricature and cartooning, his work appearing in magazines, books and advertising. Most notably, he was a regular contributor to MAD Magazine. In 1999, Viviano joined the MAD staff as Art Director, a position he held for the next 19 years.

Viviano won the prestigious National Cartoonists Society award for Best Magazine Illustration in 2009. In 2014 he was inducted into the Media Industry News Design Hall of Fame. Viviano has lectured extensively throughout the world on his career and the history of MAD. He is proud to have been a member of seven USO tours to draw caricatures for U.S. troops stationed in Europe, the Middle East and stateside. Most recently, he was Lead Advisor to the enthusiastically received MAD exhibit at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Viviano and his wife Diane, a pediatrician, live in New York City, along with a boisterous cairn terrier named Wallaby.