Popular
Culture owes a huge debt to the genius of cartoonist Harvey Kurtzman.
He was the man that introduced irreverent, satirical humor to comics
with his creation of MAD for EC Comics. Besides becoming a publishing
phenomena that spawned dozens of imitations, MAD inspired innumerable
talents in a variety of mediums from underground commix legend Robert
Crumb to film auteur Terry Gilliam. But before Kurtzman made that
great comedic leap forward, he toiled in the various studios of the
Golden Age cranking out adventure strips like Mr. Risk and Black
Venus. He also produced the funny animal adventures of Homer &
Hickstaff over at Timely in the pages of books like ALL SURPRISE
COMICS and FUNNY COMIC TUNES in his strip Pigtales.
Enjoy
the early magic of Harvey Kurtzman!
Pat
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