![]() ![]() In the reproduction, however, the ink has sunk into the cheap paper to such an extent that Davis’s linework is made to appear a lot more heavy handed that it really is, with carefully designed tonal values congealing at the darker end of the scale into unintended masses of inky blackness. ![]() ![]() The loss of crucial detail is nowhere more obvious than on the plinth of the statue, which actually contains a lot more text - text that is integral to the joke that the drawing is intended to convey - than was visible to the readers of Humbug (see above), or even to the readers of the two-volume, slip-cased Humbug reconstruction that was published by Fantagraphics Books in 2009. Wasserman published in the fanzine Inside Comics #2 (Summer 1974), Kurtzman explained how Humbug came into being and why, in his view, the project was fatally flawed from the first: However, unlike the fine folks at Fantagraphics, who clearly didn’t have the original artwork for “Cigar Store Indian, 1957,” on hand when they produced their magnificent tribute to the genius of Harvey Kurtzman and his co-conspirators at Humbug, Kurtzman and Davis would have been painfully aware what sort of damage the dodgy reproduction of Humbug #4 had inflicted on the gag on page three. KURTZMAN: HUMBUG was a very sentimental undertaking. We all sat around the day after TRUMP was dropped… wondering whether to slash our wrists. I was sitting with Jack Davis and Al Jaffee and Harry Chester and Arnold was the only one who could think constructively.Īrnold Roth was the only one who kept his head about him. And in our subsequent drunken state, we decided to carry on and we came out with HUMBUG. WASSERMAN: TRUMP was a super-slick effort, obviously intended to be well-financed. KURTZMAN: HUMBUG was an attempt to work with 15 cents and publish a sensitive cartoon satire magazine. It was a disaster because it wasn’t a realistic effort at all. It totally ignored fundamental business sense. We were carried away by our talent and camaraderie and went ahead with HUMBUG anyway. But I think we turned out some of the most charming stuff that’s ever been done. It was a teeny-tiny book in black and white. It had nothing going for it except talent - at least that’s what we told ourselves. We were satisfied with that, but it wasn’t nearly enough. Connections: Joe Doolin (1947) and Allen Anderson (1948) 31 August 2022.Connections: Steve Leialoha (1981) and Bill Sienkiewicz (1982) 10 April 2022įollow Ragged Claws Network on Tags Agatha Christie Alex Nino Alex Toth Al Williamson Andre Norton Andrew Loomis Arnold Lobel Arthur C.Look Here, Read: “Knight Errant” by Roy Kinnard and Mike Saenz.Look Here: Four novels by Thomas Burnett Swann with cover art by George Barr.Look Here: One lovely painting by Daina Graziunas 20 June 2022. ![]()
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