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Just about every panel here is worth studying- Everything from the gruesome implications of human and animal roles being reversed to metatext awareness as Donald addresses the reader about how he is more popular than that has-been Mickey to the topical references--in the first panel for example, Mickey is carrying the broken TV sunburst of his ( Read more... )

Classic tomfoolery from the early issues of MAD, when it was a full color comic book that mostly took digs at other comics. To escape the incoming Comics Code, William Gaines coverted MAD to a black & white full size magazine. In the process, he lost Harvey Kurtzman and Al Feldstein took over. The new MAD was great for years, and still worth ( Read more... )

From the 1953 EC Christmas Party, Marie Severin contributed this whimsy about Harvey Kurtzman's meticulous researching of every little detail for his war comics. Although I don't know if he ever went quite this far.


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