Career
For coming in first in a cartooning contest, Mejía received a trip to New York City, where he met commercial artist George Pratt, who had been one of the judges of the contest. Pratt took Mejía to the offices of DC Comics, and Mejía received work almost instantly. Through DC, Mejía met Charlie Kochman, the Licensed Publishing editor for both DC and MAD (which was by then a publication of DC Comics), and received an assignment for the April 1997 issue.
Mejía continued working for the New-York-based Mad while continuing to live in Venezuela for the next two years. In 1999, due to the unstable political situation and crime rate in his native country, Mejía moved to the United States. He received a "Best in Magazine Feature" Reuben Award from the National Cartoonists Society in 2003.
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