tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post7225394357856511699..comments2024-01-28T22:17:29.551-08:00Comments on Pappy's Golden Age Comics Blogzine: Number 2053: Harvey Kurtzman "saw" R. Crumb before he was born.Pappyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977289662431694607noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-43329606642753488642017-05-29T14:27:18.040-07:002017-05-29T14:27:18.040-07:00Ryan, I don't know, but don't doubt that K...Ryan, I don't know, but don't doubt that Kurtzman, even in those early years of his career, would have it in him to do some scripting.<br /><br />Darci, well, that's as good an explanation as any! As a coincidence, I find it an uncanny likeness.Pappyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01977289662431694607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-90161044039954786862017-05-28T21:13:18.584-07:002017-05-28T21:13:18.584-07:00Pappy,
So you're saying Crumb's mother was...Pappy,<br />So you're saying Crumb's mother was scared by a Kurtzman drawing while she was pregnant?<br />;-)Darcihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01598465647270663106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-42185366219128413852017-05-24T07:21:18.080-07:002017-05-24T07:21:18.080-07:00Did Kurtzman also write the Hap strip? Because the...Did Kurtzman also write the Hap strip? Because the names of those wrestlers are just like the kind he'd later come up with for <i>Mad</i>.<br /><br />Despite what you wrote about Kurtzman's lack of polish here, Pap, I actually think he did pretty well. It's obvious without reading any of the balloons that the story's meant to be played for laughs, and the panel where the wrestlers fall asleep got just that from me.<br /><br />Putting aside how silly that Paul Revere, Jr. story was, the action packed into the short strip would've been decompressed into a full issue or two of modern comics. That certainly was breathless pacing.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05389353987133860660noreply@blogger.com