A Boy with No Birthday Turns Sixty
The long and tangled history of Alfred E. Neuman.Norman Mingo’s canonical 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,” “part leering wiseacre, part happy-go-lucky kid.
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