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Mar 3, 2016 · March 3, 2016. Arts & Culture. The long and tangled history of Alfred E. Neuman. Postcard that later inspired Norman Mingo’s, Alfred E. Neuman. In a 1975 interview with the New York Times, MAD Magazine founder Harvey Kurtzman recalled an illustration of a grinning boy he’d spotted on a postcard in the early fifties: a “bumpkin portrait ...
May 12, 2011 · Notes. Neumann was born in Lautenburg, West Prussia (today Lidzbark, Poland) in 1895. He attained renown as a writer and novelist in Germany, and won the Kleist Prize (Kleist-Preis) in 1926. He left Germany for Italy in 1933, and eventually settled in Los Angeles in 1941, where he worked as a screenwriter in the film industry.
- Alfred E. Neuman – ‘The What-Me-Worry Kid’ – Introduction
- Day 1 – Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder
- Day 2 – Jack Davis
- Day 3 – Wallace Wood
- Day 4 – Al Jaffee
- Day 5 – Don Martin
- Day 6 – Bob Clarke
- Day 7 – Norman Mingo
- Day 8 – Mort Drucker
- Day 9 – Basil Wolverton
1950s MAD Editor Harvey Kurtzman was in the editor’s office at Ballantine Books when his gaze swept the office bulletin board and rested on a pinned-up postcard bearing the idiosyncratic head and shoulders of a boy who, given time, would evolve into MAD’s cover boy. Kurtzman had probably seen the face, before: similar-looking youths had been appear...
In October 2019, a fan wrote to the MAD Magazine and Alfred E. Neumam Collectors’ Facebook group: ‘Does a picture/drawing/collage exist of all the interpretations of Alfred E. Neuman done by various artists from the UGOI?’ Fairly confident that no such collection exists, I began some research of my own. The results are fairly copious, so I decided ...
JACK DAVISdrew fast, with quality, making him allegedly the first millionaire cartoonist. Some fans see Jack as a regular cover artist, although he drew no more than a dozen MAD covers, including the Neumans on the front of #27 and on the back of #30. The variance in the monochrome Neumans below provides a good example of why editor Al Feldstein re...
WALLACE WOODallegedly led a troubled life which ended tragically in 1981: while this made him hard for editors to manage in terms of meeting art deadlines, it affected neither his quality (for me, one of MAD’s top three) nor his detailed quantity of content over the early years of MAD magazine. His version of Neuman flexed to meet each challenge, a...
AL JAFFEEreturned cap-in-hand to MAD in the new Al Feldstein era, after leaving to work on Harvey Kurtzman-led projects, to be accepted immediately by Bill Gaines on the strength of that work. It is surprising how much writing Jaffee did for Feldstein (work of quality, possibly due to the fact that Al could think ‘visually’) until the editors concl...
Apologies, Don Martinfans, but this back view from a 1974 cover (#165) was the closest ‘MAD’s Maddest Artist’ got to drawing Alfred. Martin covers generally had the Norman Mingo AEN head in facsimile, alongside the MAD logo.
Robert (Bob) Clarke‘swork was clean and professional. His background in advertising enabled Bob to handle broader art chores which were less suited to those with more specialist skills. Clarke’s version of Neuman was close to the Mingo original and – as shown here – Bob was versatile and prolific…
While ‘purists’ may choose otherwise, some see NORMAN MINGOas the definitive MAD cover artist. Mingo was versed in magazine illustration before coming to MAD, and his early MAD covers look almost like spoofs of ‘that type’ of magazine cover. Mingo was initially disgruntled when he learned that it was MAD whose ad he had responded to. Nonetheless, c...
Depending on when they began reading MAD, some followers see MORT DRUCKERas a regular MAD cover artist, based on more than two dozen quality frontal contributions with classics including Hulk-a-Mania, The Simpsons, Home Alone and Wild, Wild West. Others regard Mort primarily as an internal MAD artist, due to the strength of his history of monochrom...
From 1957, issue # 31, BASIL WOLVERTON’s ‘spaghetti-and-meatballs’ look, seemingly tailor-made for MAD, was ironically not publisher Bill Gaines’s favourite. Wolverton’s style was almost inimitable, the rule-proving exception being his son Monte, who also worked for MAD.
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Neuman on Mad 30, published December 1956. Alfred E. Neuman is the fictitious mascot and cover boy of the American humor magazine Mad.The character's distinct smiling face, parted red hair, gap-toothed smile, freckles, protruding ears, and scrawny body dates back to late 19th-century advertisements for painless dentistry, also the origin of his "What, me worry?"
Feb 18, 2007 · Editor’s Comments. Six of Them is a remarkable feat of imagination. An exile from Germany, writer Alfred Neumann wrote the book, a fictionalized account of the 1943 White Rose protest against Hitler and Nazism, and the subsequent arrest, trial, and execution of the six organizers, with little more than hearsay accounts published in Time magazine and circulated among the emigre community.
Mar 17, 2016 · March 17, 2016. Leonard Ortiz/ZUMA Press/Corbis. There is no image more evocative of MAD magazine than the grinning, gap-toothed, freckled face of its mascot, Alfred E. Neuman. Ever since the big ...
