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Harvey Kurtzman (October_3, 1924 - February_21, 1993), U.S. cartoonist and magazine editor. Best known as the first editor of MAD Magazine (then a comic book) in 1952 with William Gaines and creating the magazine's Alfred E. Neuman character; and for the long-running Little Annie Fanny cartoon in Playboy magazine from 1962 to 1988, parodying the very attitudes that Playboy promoted.
He was also the editor of Trump magazine, published by Hugh Hefner, from 1960 to 1962, which was along the
lines of the early MAD, and Help magazine, published by Warren Publications, from 1962 to 1966, which first
gave exposure to artists and writers that would dominate underground comix later on, such as Robert Crumb and Gilbert Shelton, as well as John Cleese. Cleese and Terry Gilliam first worked together for Help under Kurtzman's direction, years before Monty Python.
He also particpated with Gaines in creating the famous line of EC Comics and was the editor of the war comics Frontline Combat and Two-Fisted Tales.
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