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...Dreaming up and writing Mad at EC Comics, Kurtzman virtually invented what would become the era's dominant tone of irreverent self-reference: one form of pop culture mocking all other forms, and itself. Kurtzman inspired several of the artists in this show, including Crumb, whose exemplarily twisted panels first appeared in Kurtzman's post-Mad magazine Help!, and Art Spiegelman, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus in 1986 spurred a lot of high-minded people toward a belated appreciation of the form. (A comic book about the Holocaust - that must somehow be important...
...Many comics artists, including Kurtzman and much of the Mad gang, had been schooled in fine art before turning to the strips. Some, like Will Elder, Kurtzman's loopiest cartoonist, and Al Feldstein, the mastermind of EC's horror and science fiction comics before becoming editor of Mad in 1956, have turned to more respectable forms of watercolors - what could easily be recognized as art, if not great art - in their twilight years. But in their prime, when Elder and Feldstein (and Herriman and Segar and King) were doing their most vigorous work, sending out comic distress signals under...
...stop the history tour here, in part because I've written about Kurtzman and EC comics at length on this site, in part because Andrew Arnold has written with a scholar's eloquence and a fan's passion on the later artists in the Masters of American Comics show...
...secondary concentration simple and—not surprisingly for economists—have tried to allow considerable freedom of choice,” Stock wrote in an e-mail. In the fall, the department polled students in Social Analysis 10, “Principles of Economics,” (Ec 10) on their thoughts about primary and secondary concentrations. The poll suggested that the number of students pursuing a secondary field in economics would fall in the range of 150 to 200 per class.This estimate is consistent with the theory that the increase of more than 200 in Ec...
...have trouble understanding your Ec 10 TF? Dean Theda Skocpol and the Graduate Policy Committee may have the solution. All non-native English speaking graduate students—whether they anticipate teaching undergraduates or not—will now be screened for competency in reading and speaking English, according to a report released today by the committee. Skocpol, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), said yesterday that measures are in place to ensure quality of speaking and writing skills but that they have not been uniform or consistent. “It?...