Carved in stone I think: Will Elder, Harvey Kurtzman, ?, & Jack Davis. The carver I think: Al Jaffee
Two or three years ago I bought the two hard bound set THE
COMPLETE HUMBUG MAGAZINES, all 121 issues in two volumes with a nice
sleeve.
HUMBUG Magazine was the master mind of editor Harvy
Kurtzman, who created MAD Comicbook and MAD Magazine. And also TRUMP Magazine, and HELP Magazines. I could to on but you get the idea. Harvey was the finding force of satirical magazines
in America.
When I received the hardbound HUMBUGs, I flipped through it,
which took about 2 or 3 minutes, put it on a book shelf where it sat 2 or 3
years. Why should I read it? I read each
issue over and over when hey first came out.
I knew each story by heart.
Then yesterday I opened the first volume looking for
something to copy a picture of for my blog and realized it was much more than a
collection of the 12 old HUMBUG Magazines.
There are pages and pages of a running
discussions of a analytical candidly informal type discussion between two of HUMVUG’s
artists Al Jaffee and Arnold Roth. I
started reading and they tell a lot of behind scenes of the creating in the
comic world.
It is great! All I can say is WOW! And I had them right under my nose for years… It goes page after page, I can hardly put it down. I don't know if it flows into Volume 2 yet or not..
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