I collected a lot of football cards and Mad magazines. For a span of several years, Mad was the only thing I read. Al Jaffee and Don Martin were my two favorites.

I also really enjoyed the volumes of small paperbacks of their work.

In retrospect, there was probably a lot of influence over my sense of logic going on there. Most of Jaffee's work that I enjoyed forced the consideration of causal relationships you wold never expect.

Hi David! One of my favs too. 'Just last week we translated this idea (having been inspired by the same Flickr pool) into video form, one of our better episodes I think:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCRSsxtSk1U

Great use of the narrative to illuminate the historical!

Here is a recent roundup of shipping container useage:

http://www.notcot.com/archives/2007/10/shipping_contai.php