Harvey Kurtzman's Jungle Book
“A Kurtzman you say something true, but high-minded-preferably a couple of things true, but high-minded, to set up the rhythm. Then you deflate the whole lofty mess by saying something really true, but base and down-to-earth. You point out that the Emperor is nekkid, that mortals are driven by greed and lust. And preferably, you do it with a vaguely self-deprecatory Yiddish cadence so that nobody gets too made at you for telling your truths. And, of course, if you’re Harvey Kurtzman, you do it with impeccable timing and a tight sense of structure that leaves the reader with not just a laugh, but Insight…Nowhere else is there such a larger body of Kurtzman’s drawings, and Jungle Book was an important step toward making comics Adult Entertainment…This is one book I’d even pay for.” – from the introduction by Art Spiegelman, creator of Maus
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