Harvey Kurtzman's Jungle Book is a 1959 graphic novel by American cartoonist Harvey Kurtzman. The satirical stories are aimed at an adult audience, in contrast to Kurtzman's earlier work for adolescents in periodicals such as Mad. The social satire in the book's four stories targets Peter Gunn-style private-detective shows, Westerns such as Gunsmoke, capitalist greed in the publishing industry, Freudian pop psychology, and lynch-hungry yokels in the Deep South. Kurtzman had created the satirical Mad in 1952, but left its publisher EC Comics in 1956 after a dispute over financial control. He proposed Jungle Book as an all-original cartoon book to Ballantine Books to replace their successful series of Mad collections, which had moved to another publisher. Ballantine accepted his proposal, albeit with reservations about its commercial viability. Jungle Book was the first mass-market paperback of original comics published in the United States. Though it was not a financial success, it attracted fans and critical acclaim for its brushwork, satirical adult-oriented humor, experimental dialogue balloons, and adventurous page and panel designs.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1815:
The East Indiaman ship Arniston was wrecked during a storm at Waenhuiskrans, near Cape Agulhas, present-day South Africa, with the loss of 372 lives. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arniston_(East_Indiaman)
1899:
Pearl Hart, one of the few female outlaws of the American Old West, performed one of the last recorded stagecoach robberies 30 miles (48 km) southeast of Globe, Arizona. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Hart
1963:
Buddhist crisis: A protest against pro-Catholic discrimination was held outside South Vietnam's National Assembly, the first open demonstration against President Ngô Đình Diệm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_crisis
1972:
Members of the Japanese Red Army carried out the Lod Airport massacre in Tel Aviv, Israel, on behalf of PFLP External Operations, killing over 20 people and injuring almost 80 others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lod_Airport_massacre
2005:
The disappearance of American student Natalee Holloway while on a high school graduation trip to Aruba caused a media sensation in the U.S. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Natalee_Holloway
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
nature-deficit disorder: (psychology) A class of behavioural problems in modern children, ascribed to the fact that they spend little time outdoors, the existence of which is regarded by some as controversial. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nature-deficit_disorder
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