You could say their style almost stereotypically and to a comical level reflected their environment, race, personality and occupation which was as polar opposit

You could say their style almost stereotypically and to a comical level reflected their environment, race, personality and occupation which was as polar opposite from each other as you can be: Central European introverted Jewish actuary vs Latin American extroverted leftest journalist writing satirical columns. But their imagination certainly seemed to come from the same place as many who read them noticed without even being aware that one influenced the other.