MAD Magazine, Superheroes, and Inventing the Comics

Drew Friedman talks about the famous and not-so-famous men and women cartoonists who created superheroes, Mad magazine, and more. He’s joined by Mad magazine’s Al Jaffee. Friedman’s book Heroes of the Comics: Portraits Of The Pioneering Legends Of Comic Books features artists, publishers, and editors from the industry’s birth in the 1930s through the artists and writers of behind EC Comics in the 1950s, including Stan Lee, Harvey Kurtzman, Will Eisner, Mort Drucker, Jack Davis, Will Elder, and Bill Gaines, among others.

Jack Kirby on the Cover of Heroes of the Comics

(Drew Friedman)

Stan Lee in Heroes of the Comics

(Drew Friedman)

Al Jaffee in Heroes of the Comincs

(Drew Friedman)