The late cartoonist Harvey Kurtzman was well-known for his biting satire; in 1952 he founded Mad, first as a comic book and later as a magazine that endures to this day, still bringing Kurtzman-style ...

In 1954, cartoonist Harvey Kurtzman was at the top of his game. He was in the midst of revolutionizing American comedy with the landmark humor publication MAD, while his war and suspense comics set ...

Harvey Kurtzman is widely regarded as one of the greatest cartoonists of all time, but there's one work he was never able to complete in his lifetime - a graphic novel adaptation of Charles Dickens' A ...

Starting today on digital comics platform Comixology, you can purchase Harvey Kurtzman's Marley's Ghost, which is not, as the title implies, a graphic novel about a ghost named Marley belonging to ...

The Art of Harvey Kurtzman: The Mad Genius of Comics (Abrams ComicArts, $40) begins with startling, sweeping statements of its subject’s importance not just to comics, but to American culture as a ...

Retrace the strands that led to a lot of current American satire — including The Simpsons, Saturday Night Live and The Daily Show — and sooner or later you end up at Harvey Kurtzman. A comic ...

Best remembered for his work for Mad and other EC Comics, Harvey Kurtzman is one of the most important comic book artists in American comics history. His one-panel comic in Tip Top Comics #36, ...

Harvey Kurtzman's Jungle Book: Or, Up from the Apes! (and Right Back Down)—In Which Are Described in Words and Pictures Businessmen, Private Eyes, Cowboys, and Other Heroes All Exhibiting the Progress ...

You may have seen the Spiderman movie poster in which the Green Goblin appears to change position depending on the viewer’s angle. For almost a century, the gimmick of lenticular printing—placing a ...

A Brief History of the Rise and Fall and Aesthetics of Humbug by Denis Kitchen For many in my Boomer generation Harvey Kurtzman was a towering cultural figure. He remains most famous, of course, for ...