NEAR MINT A Fanzine for Students Fans Pros

Comic Books, Old Movies, Art

Softcover Magazine Fanzine

Publisher: Dillenges, 1980

8 1/2" X 11" Black & White Magazine Format with stiff cardboard covers.

Scarce Nostalgia & Pop Art Fanzine with many articles, interviews, overviews, reviews and many illustrated reproductions of classic comic books, comic strips, artists samples and stories as well as fan fave cult movies.

Lengthy pictorial feature on the PIRATE & Buccaneer in comics, movies, literature and art. Errol Flynn stars as well as examples by Howard Pyle & N C Wyeth. Plus Reprint of "How I Broke into the Movies" article by Harold Lloyd

CONDITION of BOOK is VERY GOOD or MUCH BETTER with occaisional minor surface wear from being read, handled, stored & moved. Some of these copies have an amount of ink "smears" on the covers from being handled and the cheap ink used to produce this fanzine...Please refer to scanned images... they truly are worth a thousand words.

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Harvey Kurtzman (October 3, 1924 – February 21, 1993) 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.

Born to Jewish immigrants, Kurtzman took early to cartooning. After graduating from New York's High School of Music & Art, he spent the 1940s doing freelance work for various publishers and publications before getting regular work at EC Comics in 1950, writing and drawing for their New Trend line of comic books. He wrote and edited the Two-Fisted Tales and Frontline Combat war comic books, where he also drew many of the carefully researched stories, before he created his most-remembered comic book, Mad, in 1952. The Kurtzman-scripted stories were drawn by top EC cartoonists, most frequently Will Elder, Wally Wood, and Jack Davis; the early Mad was noted for its social critique and parodies of pop culture. The comic book switched to a magazine format in 1955, and Kurtzman left it in 1956 over a dispute with EC's owner William Gaines over financial control. Following his departure, he did a variety of cartooning jobs, including editing the short-lived Trump and the self-published Humbug. In 1959, he produced the first book-length work of original comics, the adult-oriented, satirical Jungle Book. He edited the low-budget Help! from 1960 to 1965, a humor magazine which featured work by future Monty Python member Terry Gilliam and the earliest work of underground cartoonists such as Robert Crumb and Gilbert Shelton. He brought Help! to an end after the success of the risqué Playboy feature Little Annie Fanny began to take up too much of his time. While Annie Fanny provided much of his income for the rest of his career, he continued to produce an eclectic body of work, including screenwriting the animated Mad Monster Party in 1967 and directing, writing and designing several shorts for Sesame Street in 1969.

From 1973, Kurtzman taught cartooning at the School of Visual Arts in New York. His work gained greater recognition toward the end of his life, and he oversaw deluxe reprintings of much of his work. The Harvey Award was named in Kurtzman's honor in 1988. He was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1989, and his work earned five positions on The Comics Journal '​s Top 100 Comics of the 20th Century(wiki)

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