HELP! by Harvey Kurtzman! The Origins of Underground Comix and Monty Python in One Humor Magazine!

[@SnakeNel]

Always enjoy visits from Warren Bernard and his books. Gwandanaland Comics is reissuing Help. Two volumes so far, with four issues in each volume. Not in order, but complete with the great ads. "This Collection Needs Help!"

[@garykuzminski7969]

This was fantastic!

[@russworks2882]

Great stuff. Help! smells of low budget; Kurtzman was at his most resourceful in finding ways to work on the cheap. Lots of vintage public domain cartooning from old masters like Caran D'Ache and Winsor McCay. He even got Eisner to allow a Spirit reprint. The Public Gallery got a lot of its material from the concurrent college humor magazines, where the Wonder Wart-Hog material originally appeared.There's a great paperback collection from the 60's called Wonder Wart-Hog, Captain Crud and Other Super-Stuff, collecting college superhero satires (including Bode's Masked Lizard.) By the way, the infamous Goodman Goes Playboy strip was reprinted in full in Comics Journal 262.

[@ThisOil_PuddleWorld]

love that Allen/Kerouac album

[@frankstrysik1558]

Del Close also had an album in that sales ad. Del wrote for DC and First comics in the 1980s.

[@Ayanami0001]

incredible to hear this history and put the pieces together!

[@uuuhyeah7859]

"Goodman Goes Playboy" was reprinted in issue #262 of The Comics Journal if anybody's interested.

[@mayomonkey-gen1]

Edit: I had a long winded ramble, and realized it was just putting more attention to things. I'll just say, you both seem like decent dudes. Please don't ever apologize for your art.

[@cluepac]

UPA is the animation studio. Great book on them called "When Magoo Flew: The Rise and Fall of Animation Studio UPA

[@Jamesharveycomics]

Came here to say this. Ed's asked about this before!

[@nowherebound2908]

Great rundown of this little known but important niche of pop culture! I haven't seen much of Trump or Help before, but I've heard an interview with Gilliam on how important Kurtzman was to him. I grew up with my parents' bound volume of Humbug issues 1-9 (still have!) - so good! Many of the Mad regulars also worked on Humbug - Al Jaffee, Jack Davis, Elder, Wally Wood ...

[@bolunixan]

Love these episodes

[@Therealmrmeow]

Great choices with warren these past few days guys!

[@squinkque]

Have you guys heard of the Gwandanaland Comics version of Goodman Beaver that was published last year? I just ordered it on amazon and it appears to contain the Goodman goes to Playboy story with the altered characters.

[@jabbajuju]

Crap! I've been trying to collect these!!!

[@Sigma10-c1k]

Kayfabe ? What is that !!!!????I don't like it at all, seriously don't like it