Mike Lynch Cartoons (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Found this via a Web search for something else. Which is, of course, the most fun way to find something, isn't it? Russ Maheras shows us some early gag cartoons by Harvey Kurtzman . All are from 1945 issues of Yank Magazine , when Harvey was twenty years old and in the infantry. "A mere seven years later, Kurtzman would forever change the way the world viewed itself...
Blogcritics: Books (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Discover the mesmerizing brilliance and eccentricities of 'Mad' magazine editor and American comic illustrator Harvey Kurtzman. Art - Harvey Kurtzman - Mad - United States - Comics
Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
When Paul Buhle (whose collaborations with Harvey Pekar are among my comics favorites) mentioned to me that Harvey Kurtzman was a personal hero, I knew I had to read Buhle's book The Art of Harvey Kurtzman: The Mad Genius...
Comics Alliance (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
... years" by the Duke of Windsor, although that pales in comparison to the honor of being parodied by Harvey Kurtzman and Wally Wood as "Prince Violent" in an early issue of "MAD."FablesWith the way it draws on classic stories and fairy tales, it shouldn't surprise anyone that Bill Willingham's "Fables" found a way to tie into the story of Arthur. In this case, Arthur himself is absent...
BOOKSTEVE'S LIBRARY (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Here's a badly cropped and edited image of a San Diego Con jam session from thity years ago in 1979. The accompanying blurb indicates that the pic was taken before all artists had done their part but that the final list of contributors to this 3 feet by 13 feet wall art included, amongst others, Harvey Kurtzman, Trina Robbins, Shel Dorf, Paul Mavrides, my facebook friend Scott Shaw!,...
Blog@Newsarama (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
... Crandall, Jack Davis, George Evans, Will Elder, Al Feldstein, Jack Kamen, Bernard Krigstein, Harvey Kurtzman, Graham Ingels, Joe Orlando, John Severin, Basil Wolverton, Wallace Wood, Al Williamson, as Frank Frazetta, Roy G. Krenkel, Alex Toth and Angelo Torres. Whew. Creeping Death From Neptune: Basil Wolverton’s Sci-Fi and Horror Comics 1938-55 This book will focus on Wolverton’s...
all kinds of stuff (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
... have been spoiled by widened tastes and discovering many more great cartoonists over the years. Harvey Eisenberg's careful compositions and perfectly balanced poses make me think of these comics as being kind of clumsy by comparison. Milt Gross' wild layouts and funny posing makes this stuff seem really tame to me now.I think the big difference between strips that catch on and strips that...
