Chris Mautner | October 7, 2024
A smiling Harvey Kurtzman bids adieu to you all. Photo from the Comics Journal archives.Sadly, our centennial celebration of beloved Mad genius Harvey Kurtzman is over. We know, we're crying in our furshlugginer beer, too.
But we're leaving in our archives a week's worth of fantastic material to peruse. Here's a quick rundown of the stories we ran last week, in case you might have missed something:
- Harvey Kurtzman’s Hey Look!: An appreciation and retrospective by Paul Karasik. A charming tribute to one of Kurtzman's most delightful works.
- ‘You’re only three-dimensional because of me!’: A celebration of Harvey Kurtzman’s sci-fi stories by Frank M. Young. An in-depth appreciation of Kurtzman's early EC stories.
- Harvey Kurtzman on the big comic cleanup of 1954 by Patrick Rosenkranz. A "lost" interview with Kurtzman that Rosenkranz did back in 1972.
- Nose to Nose With Reality: Harvey Kurtzman and Comics Journalism by Anya Davidson. Davidson dives deep to show how Kurtzman influenced cartoonists to try their hand at journalism and nonfiction.
- Learning From Kurtzman part 1: How Harvey helped create Punk magazine by Michael Dooley. Part one of an extensive look at Harvey's days as a teacher at the School of Visual Arts, featuring an extensive interview with John Holmstrom.
- Learning from Harvey Kurtzman, part 2: SVA and the Glocca Morra Pub by Michael Dooley. Bob Fingerman, Mark Newgarden and more talk about their experiences having Kurtzman as a teacher.
- Harvey Kurtzman: Seriously Funny by Drew Friedman. Friedman offers a warm, touching portrait of his relationship with Kurtzman.
A big thank you to all our contributors for helping us put this together, especially Paul Karasik for getting the ball rolling. You all made this special.
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