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American cartoonist Harvey Kurtzman was the founding editor and primary writer for the humor periodical Mad from its founding in 1952 until its 28th issue in 1956. Featuring pop-culture parodies and social satire, what began as a color comic book became a black-and-white magazine with its 24th issue.
Harvey Kurtzman (/ ˈ k ɜːr t s m ə n /; October 3, 1924 – February 21, 1993) was an American cartoonist and editor. His best-known work includes writing and editing the parodic comic book Mad from 1952 until 1956, and writing the Little Annie Fanny strips in Playboy from 1962 until 1988.
Mad (stylized as MAD) is an American humor magazine first published in 1952. It was founded by editor Harvey Kurtzman and publisher William Gaines, [2] launched as a comic book series before it became a magazine.
Debuting in August 1952 (cover-dated October–November), [1] Mad began as a comic book, part of the EC line published from offices on Lafayette Street in Lower Manhattan.In 1961 Mad moved its offices to mid-town Manhattan, and from 1996 onwards it was located at 1700 Broadway [2] until 2018 when it moved to Los Angeles, California to coincide with a new editor and a reboot to issue #1.
The humor magazine that began in 1952 as a comic book making fun of other comic books soon became an institution for mocking authority in all spheres of life, from TV, movies and advertising, to ...
William Elder (born Wolf William Eisenberg; September 22, 1921 – May 15, 2008) [2] was an American illustrator and comic book artist who worked in numerous areas of commercial art but is best known for a frantically funny cartoon style that helped launch Harvey Kurtzman's Mad comic book in 1952.
"Superduperman" is a satirical story by Harvey Kurtzman and Wally Wood that was published in the fourth issue of Mad (April–May 1953). Lampooning both Superman and Captain Marvel, it revolutionized the types of stories seen in Mad, leading to greatly improved sales.
Al Jaffee returned to Mad in the same issue as Siegel's debut, and remained with the magazine for more than half a century until he retired at age 99. Wally Wood was the only artist to work simultaneously for Mad and Kurtzman's post-Mad projects; after Humbug folded, Wood was a Mad regular until 1964.