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Jack Davis and Wallace Wood’s crazed cartooning in Mad changed
the art form, and comedy itself, forever. But their gonzo parody
work in Mad’s sister satire title, Panic, published at the same time,
is less well-known. To invert that injustice, this volume of The Fantagraphics
EC Artists’ Library presents all their zany, pun-packed
Panic lampoonery, especially their pomposity-puncturing movie
parodies, including Davis’s “My Gun Is the Jury!” “Come Back,
Little Street Car!”, “A Star Is Corn” and Wood’s “African Scream!”,
“Gone with the Widow,” and “20,000 Leaks Under the Sea.”
These visual volleys are verbalized by Al Feldstein (editor of
Panic, later editor of Mad) and Jack Mendelsohn (prolific cartoonist
and writer whose non-comics credits include TV’s Laugh-In and
The Beatles’ Yellow Submarine).
But the laughs don’t languish. Also included is the never-before-reprinted
“V-Vampires,” a riotous romp written by the legendary Harvey
Kurtzman and drawn by Wood that vanished after its initial appearance
more than 70 years ago!

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Jack Davis and Wallace Wood’s crazed cartooning in Mad changed
the art form, and comedy itself, forever. But their gonzo parody
work in Mad’s sister satire title, Panic, published at the same time,
is less well-known. To invert that injustice, this volume of The Fantagraphics
EC Artists’ Library presents all their zany, pun-packed
Panic lampoonery, especially their pomposity-puncturing movie
parodies, including Davis’s “My Gun Is the Jury!” “Come Back,
Little Street Car!”, “A Star Is Corn” and Wood’s “African Scream!”,
“Gone with the Widow,” and “20,000 Leaks Under the Sea.”
These visual volleys are verbalized by Al Feldstein (editor of
Panic, later editor of Mad) and Jack Mendelsohn (prolific cartoonist
and writer whose non-comics credits include TV’s Laugh-In and
The Beatles’ Yellow Submarine).
But the laughs don’t languish. Also included is the never-before-reprinted
“V-Vampires,” a riotous romp written by the legendary Harvey
Kurtzman and drawn by Wood that vanished after its initial appearance
more than 70 years ago!

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