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Transcript: Harvey Kurtzman: The Comics World's 'Mad Genius'
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DAVID BIANCULLI
NPR Fresh Air
07-24-2009
Harvey Kurtzman: The Comics World's 'Mad Genius'
Host: DAVID BIANCULLI
Time 12:00-13:00 PM
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DAVID BIANCULLI, host:
This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli in for Terry Gross.
As a cartoonist and writer, Harvey Kurtzman was a key influence on modern adult comic books and, some would say, on satiric humor in general. He created the comic book Mad, which later would become Mad Magazine. Music critic Milo Miles says that the span of Kurtzman's work has been brought into focus with a richly illustrated new biography called "The Art of Harvey Kurtzman: The Mad Genius of Comics."
MILO MILES: Since I grew up as comics fanatic, Harvey Kurtzman ...
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