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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Though his tenure lasted less than two years at the publication, Harvey Kurtzman is the genius responsible for Mad magazine's design, cast of characters, and unique brand of irreverence. In this ...

Dark Horse Comics is issuing a special edition of the Essential Kurtzman Jungle Book, a 1959 graphic novel, that we've mentioned before. This edition, however, limited to 175 copies, will come with a ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli in for Terry Gross. As a cartoonist and writer, Harvey Kurtzman was a key influence on modern adult comic books and, some would say, on satiric humor in general.

The Harvey Awards have revealed the nominees for their annual comics industry awards in the following six categories, which will be voted on by professionals from now until September 10th. The winners ...

One of the most influential, yet unsung, figures in American humor, cartoonist Harvey Kurtzman created "Mad Magazine" in 1952, and for the next few years served as its editor and primary writer. After ...

The nominations for comic industry awards the Harveys have been announced, with voting open until Sept. 21. By Graeme McMillan The nominees for this year’s Harvey Awards showcase a comic industry ...