Will Elder, Harvey Kurtzman, and GANEFS

I love Will Elder drawings, slapstick  - minute details and Harpo Marx-like as they are.  Also, after learning that editor Harvey Kurtzman would mimic or pantomime the exact body language he expected his artists to convey’  Now, it is additional entertaining to go back and imagine Kurtzman acting out the actions  he created, such as these Elder illustrations in MAD’s GANEFS:  I wonder if Kurtzman was humming or singing in the 4th and 5th cartoons.

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