Comments on: Robert Crumb writes a short, sad story about the career of MAD creator Harvey Kurtzman

By: Lithi

Lithi — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 03:33:00 +0000

I don’t know about Bill, but there’s mention of a William Gaines in the 3rd paragraph from the bottom.

By: uragan

uragan — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 03:11:00 +0000

Uh, no mention of Bill Gaines?

By: Halloween_Jack

Halloween_Jack — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 23:41:00 +0000

Checking Wikipedia, I see that Little Annie Fanny ran all the way from the early sixties to 1988, with a short revival a decade later. That’s pretty amazing, given that the strip (at least as I remember it) remained solidly rooted in the sixties, both in its type of humor and in not showing genitalia.

By: sburns54

sburns54 — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 22:48:00 +0000

Some of Crumb’s earliest published work was in Harvey’s Help! mag. Terry Gilliam and Gloria Steinem were there, too. Poor Harvey- he was great, his war comics and Mad were world- changing, TRUMP’s 2 issues are a high point. Unfortunately, he overplayed his hand with his demands for a controlling stake in Mad in 1956 and paid for it forever after. Bill Gaines turned to Al Feldstein, who produced the commercially viable MAD magazine we are familiar with- Harvey was left to churn out the increasingly horrid Little Annie Fanny, and we are left with many sad “what might have been” speculations…

By: Luke Temple Walsh

Luke Temple Walsh — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 18:46:00 +0000

I might draw your attention to a book I appeared in with Robert Crumb since today I am in the business of drawing your attention to this sleeper agent (see KLF article) elsewhere in Boing Boing today. At that point I was not using the middle name of Temple. Review: http://www2.citypaper.com/eat/review.asp?rid=5185 Available: http://www.abebooks.co.uk/Flock-Dreamers-Anthology-Dream-Inspired-Comics/4819911256/bd

By: millie fink

millie fink — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 18:21:00 +0000

At least it’s okay now to draw a tit in Russia. Things ARE getting better!