How fascinating it is to chart the thematic development and coming-of-age of an artist, weaned on MAD Magazine, who began his career as part of the San Francisco comic-book counterculture of the 1960s and '70s, which included talented draftsmen like Robert Crumb and Gilbert Shelton.
General Dynamics currently has 5, 000 engineers and draftsmen at work in and around Groton designing the next generation of ballistic-missile subs, and an additional 2, 000 tradesmen assembling Virginia-class attack subs, so the town is on firm ground in calling itself the submarine capital of the world.