Harvey Kurtzman

Harvey Kurtzman was an American cartoonist and editor of comic books and magazines. His large body of work includes writing and editing the parodic comic book Mad from 1952 until 1956, and the sexy and satirical Little Annie Fanny strips in Playboy from 1962 until 1988. His work is noted for its satire and parody of popular culture, social critique, and an obsessive attention to detail. His working method has been likened to that of an auteur, and those who illustrated his stories were expected to follow his layouts strictly.

Harvey Kurtzman was born on October1603, 1924 in a tenement building on 428 East NinetyEighth Street in Brooklyn in New York City. David joined the Christian Science church, and when he suffered a bleeding ulcer he turned to prayer to cure it he died from it on November 29, 1928, at age 36. The family was in such desperate financial straits that their mother placed the Kurtzman brothers in an orphanage for three months until she secured work as a milliner. Several months later, Edith remarried to RussianJewish immigrant Abraham Perkes, who worked in the printing industry as a brass engraver and whom the Kurtzmans were familiar with. The Kurtzman boys kept their surname, while their mother took Perkes, and the couple had a son Daniel on February 17, 1931. In 1934 they moved to the more upscale Bronx, where the family lived at 2166 Clinton Avenue.

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