Harvey Kurtzman: The Man Who Created Mad and Revolutionized Humor in America Audiobook by Bill Schelly

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ID: 627206
Title: Harvey Kurtzman: The Man Who Created Mad and Revolutionized Humor in America
Author: Bill Schelly
Narrator: Jim Meskimen
Format: Unabridged
Length: 21:36:26
Language: English
Release date: 06-28-22
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Genres: Biography & Memoir, Arts & Entertainment

Summary:
This biography reveals the true story of Mad creator Harvey Kurtzmanthe man who revolutionized humor in America.
Harvey Kurtzman created Mad, and Mad revolutionized humor in America. Kurtzman was the original editor, artist, and sole writer of Mad, one of the greatest publishing successes of the twentieth century. But how did Kurtzman invent Mad, and why did he leave it shortly after it burst, nova-like, onto the American scene?
For this heavily researched biography, Bill Schelly conducted new interviews with Kurtzmans colleagues, friends, and family, including Hugh Hefner, R. Crumb, Jack Davis, and many others, and examined Kurtzmans personal archives. The result is the true story of one of the twentieth centurys greatest humorists. Kurtzmans family life, the details of the FBIs investigation during the McCarthy Era, his legal battles with William M. Gaines (publisher of Mad), are all revealed for the first time. Rich with anecdotes, this book traces Kurtzmans life from his Brooklyn beginnings to his post-Mad years, when his ceaseless creativity produced more innovations: new magazines, a graphic novel, and Little Annie Fanny in Playboy.

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