Sam Viviano spent 19 years as the visual steward of MAD Magazine. He decided how a joke would read long before anyone saw a finished page — the choices that shaped what the reader noticed first, what could disappear, and where the composition carried or broke the gag.

Mark Wheatley is an award-winning graphic novelist whose work runs from Breathtaker and Mars to museum exhibitions and the Library of Congress. He builds pages around what the eye isn’t shown.