Humbug

Humbug

Hardback (18 Feb 2009)

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Publisher's Synopsis

The face of American humour was changed forever when Kurtzman created the legendary MAD comic. Through MAD he influenced an entire generation of cartoonists, comedians and film-makers. In 1962, he co-created the long-running Little Annie Fanny with his long-time artistic partner Will Elder for Playboy. Between MAD and Annie Fanny, Kurtzman created and edited three other magazines: Trump, Humbug and Help! At last, the entire run of 11 issues of Humbug is being reprinted in a deluxe format, much of it reprinted from the original art.

About the Publisher

Fantagraphics Books

Fantagraphics Books

Fantagraphics Books has been a leading proponent of comics as a legitimate form of art and literature since it began publishing the critical trade magazine The Comics Journal in 1976. By the early 1980s, Fantagraphics found itself at the forefront of the burgeoning movement to establish comics as a medium as eloquent and expressive as the more established popular arts of film, literature, poetry, et al. Fantagraphics quickly established a reputation as an advocacy publisher that specialized in seeking out and publishing the kind of innovative work that traditional comics corporations who dealt almost exclusively in super-heroes and fantasy either didn?t know existed or wouldn?t touch: serious, dramatic, historical, journalistic, political, and satirical work by a new generation of alternative cartoonists as well as many artists who gained prominence as part of the seminal underground comix movement of the '60s. Fantagraphics has since gained an international reputation for its literate and audacious editorial standards and its exacting production values.

Book information

ISBN: 9781560979333
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Imprint: Fantagraphics Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 741.5973
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 400
Weight: 2286g
Height: 254mm
Width: 203mm
Spine width: 57mm