MAD Behind the Scenes

I read someplace how Harvey Kurtzman went about creating a story in MAD.  His final product to present the   artist he selected was in thumbnail form.   He would call the artist in and point out each thumbnail and act it out how he wanted it to be presented.  With just the artist as his audience he would pantomime the body language he wanted the illustration to convey. To the reader.

I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall watching Kurtzman do his body language thing, such as these which he probably did: