"Compulsion on the Range" ---
Page 87 from Jungle Book (1959)
6.75" wide x 12.5" high
Pen & ink, brush and wash on blue-ruled
Bristol board glued to a second sheet.
This page from Harvey Kurtzman's western parody,
"Compulsion on the Range," in Jungle Book, depicts
Marshall Dollin (Marshall Dillon from TV's long-running Gunsmoke)
and the portly Sergeant Garcia from Zorro. This is page
87 from the 1986 Kitchen Sink Press book [Out of print, but available
on this site ---Steve]. A tape stain along the top and a portion
of one side, registration marks and printer's notations (all
outside the image area) are the only "flaws." The image
itself is excellent and unscathed. Comes with a masking overlay
on clear acetate, not pictured here. Masterful ink and wash work
by one of the medium's most celebrated and respected creators.
Harvey Kurtzman's Jungle Book, created
in 1959, stands as a watershed moment in comics history. It was
the first paperback book of original comics material. It introduced
the character Goodman Beaver, who evolved, amazingly enough,
three years later into Playboy's Little Annie Fanny. Jungle
Book was an all-too-rare example of Kurtzman working without
collaborators. But most important, its four stories were flat-out
brilliant, inspiring, among others, the young generation of underground
cartoonists who emerged less than a decade later.
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