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| Pat McGreal, Sergio Aragonès, Steve Greenberg, and Bob Foster. | Photo by David Folkman. |
President Pat McGreal
Pat McGreal stumbled into a second career as a full time comics writer in the early 1990's. Prior to that, he eked out a living as an actor and founding member of THE RIOT ACT, a sketch comedy group that extensively played the L.A.'80's club scene and toured colleges and universities all over the United States.
Then, in 1991, his lifelong dream of working in comics was realized when he simultaneously made in-roads with a Danish publisher, Egmont Comic Creations, and several American companies.
Since that time, he has written literally hundreds of DONALD DUCK and MICKEY MOUSE comic stories for Egmont, which publishes and distributes Disney material to more than thirty countries throughout Europe, the Middle-East and Asia. In 1997, Pat's wife, Carol, joined him as a full time collaborator. Together, they continue to put the iconic rodent and bad-tempered duck through their paces.
Pat has also written many superhero and adventure comic books featuring such classic characters as the FLASH, HAWKMAN, JUDGE DREDD, JUSTICE LEAGUE, INDIANA JONES, TARZAN, CAPTAIN MARVEL, MARTIAN MANHUNTER and FIGHTING AMERICAN.
Additionally, he is the author of several original graphic novels from DC/Vertigo, including I PAPARAZZI, VEILS, and CHIAROSCURO: THE PRIVATE LIVES OF LEONARDO DA VINCI (for which he received an Eisner Award nomination).
Pat joined CAPS in 1992, and served on the Board as President from '94 thru '95. It’s taken him all these years to work up the nerve to have another go at it...
Vice-President Sergio Aragonès
Sergio has been a major part of "the usual gang of idiots" at MAD Magazine for many decades. His unique style and eye for humor has graced the comics pages for publishers such as DC, Marvel, and Dark Horse Comics where his 26-year-old Groo the Wanderer currently resides. Perhaps one of the fastest and hardest working cartoonists in comics, Sergio is always a fan favorite at conventions all over the world, and is highly revered among his peers. His love for cartooning and his fellow cartoonists prompted him to co-found CAPS in 1977 where he remains vitally involved as our Vice-President.
Treasurer Bob Foster
Bob's career in animation started in 1969, followed by a string of jobs at most of the animation studios in the Los Angeles area. In 1970 he created Myron Moose Funnies, a silly little underground comic book that caught the eye of Marv Wolfman which led to a job with Marvel Comics where he wrote and illustrated The History of Moosekind for CRAZY Magazine. That led to an offer from Disney Consumer Products/Publications where he worked as a Staff Writer/Artist for thirteen years. While there, he wrote the Donald Duck comic strip for nine years and was Managing Editor and Editor for Disney Comics where he edited Walt Disney's Comics and Stories, Donald Duck Adventures, Uncle Scrooge Adventures and Duck Tales, plus several graphic novels. He also worked for Egmont Publishing in Copenhagen for two years where he was an Editor and Art Director for Disney comics in Europe. He is currently doing storyboards on Mickey Mouse Clubhouse for Disney TV Animation.
Secretary Steve Greenberg
Steve Greenberg is an editorial cartoonist currently frelancing to LAObserved.com, the alt-weekly Ventura County Reporter, the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles and various websites. He worked as an editorial cartonist and artist at the Ventura County Star, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, Marin Independent Journal and the Daily News of Los Angeles, and was contributing cartoonist for Editor & Publisher magazine. His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, MAD Magazine and in seventy books, and has won awards nearly ever year of his career, including runner-up in the 2008 Fischetti Editorial Cartoon Competition (behind the year's Pulitzer winner), citations in the 2006 and 2007 United Nations Ranan Lurie Cartoon Competitions, and Grand Prize in the 1999 Homer Davenport contest.