Comics Journal on Kurtzman

Read the first installment of a lengthy article about the legendary Mad Magazine founder: "Harvey Kurtzman and Modern American Satire."

Writing in The New Yorker, Adam Gopnik reiterated “Almost all American satire today follows a formula that Harvey Kurtzman thought up” and Robert Crumb noted that for him “Mad was a revelation. Nothing I read anywhere else suggested there was any absurdity in the culture; Mad was like a shock, breaking you out”