tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6381342123888645002.post1330870544710071003..comments2024-03-24T18:11:00.136-07:00Comments on Inside Jeff Overturf's Head: "From Eternity Back to Here!" - Bernie Krigstein - Mad Mondays!Unca Jeffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02292248615715408243noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6381342123888645002.post-13418428427213774202011-11-28T09:23:30.164-08:002011-11-28T09:23:30.164-08:00Hi Unca Jeff!
Wow, perfect timing here. Just 20 m...Hi Unca Jeff!<br /><br />Wow, perfect timing here. Just 20 minutes before tuning in here, I was reading an old interview with Kurtzman about his feelings of working with Krigstein. Kurtzman was saying that Krigstein was so serious and didn't have much of a sense of humor at all. Kurtzman called working with him 'an experiment', and that Krigstein really just didn't 'get the point', regarding humor. The interviewer thought that 'From Eternity Back to Here' worked as an experiment, partly because of the good caricatures, and Kurtzman grudgingly agreed, but said that Krigstein was best as a serious graphic storyteller. Well, yeah. Kurtzman said that some cartoonists could be grim with a twinkle in their eye, that they are out to fool you. But that Krigstein didn't do that. 'He did funny grimness, grimness in slapstick'.<br /><br />I'm surprised Krigstein's other Mad piece, 'Bringing Back Father', even made it to print. I haven't looked at it for several years, but my memory of it is grim. Kurtzman certainly wasn't happy with it.Thomas Haller Buchananhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09278003392092477845noreply@blogger.com