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Saturday, April 27, 2013

Fun Time! The Art Of Harvey Kurtzman!

If you were a kid in the 1960s, it was practically impossible to avoid MAD Magazine. Brilliantly satirical and innocently subversive, MAD helped kids understand the world they were growing up into.

Here is a short documentary featuring artists Al Jaffee (he did the fold-in pages on the back cover) and Robert Grossman (he did many of the front covers) talking about the inception of MAD and the magazine's creator, Harvey Kurtzman. They also show you where the origin of the publications mascot, Alfred E. Neumann.


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