MAD Man
Remembering Harvey Kurtzman, the genius behind MAD Magazine
Harvey Kurtzman was one of the most important comic-book artists of all time. R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman, and the creators of Saturday Night Live and Monty Python are all in his debt. In a new gloriously comics-filled biography called The Art of Harvey Kurtzman: The Mad Genius of Comics, authors Paul Buhle and Denis Kitchen go deep inside Kurtzman’s life and art. Paul Buhle spoke with Vox Tablet host Sara Ivry about Kurtzman’s secular Jewish upbringing in the Bronx, his success at MAD, and his failures later in life.
The Art of Harvey Kurtzman
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Ulcer campaign illustration, circa 1945-47.
Estate of Harvey Kurtzman.
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“Hey Look!”, Gay Comics no. 36, 1949.
Estate of Harvey Kurtzman.
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Frontline Combat no. 7, 1952.
Courtesy of MAD Magazine.
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MAD Magazine no. 4, April-May 1953.
Courtesy of MAD Magazine.
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Detail from “Assignment: James Cagney in Ireland,” Esquire, April 1959.
Estate of Harvey Kurtzman.
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Detail from “Dracula: His Cousins,” 1974.
Estate of Harvey Kurtzman.
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Left: Self-Portrait from Harvey Kurtzman’s Jungle Book, 1959. Right: Harvey Kurtzman, September 1965.
Estate of Harvey Kurtzman.
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