Transformer's Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci are said to be on board as producers.

In Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, McNeil said that the magazine was inspired by two chief influences: Harvey Kurtzman and The Dictators ' debut album The Dictators Go Girl Crazy !, indicating that the magazine was started strictly so that its creators could " hang out with the Dictators ".

For the 2009 reboot film Star Trek, writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman saw McCoy as an " arbiter " in Kirk and Spock's relationship.

In the 2009 film Star Trek, screenwriters Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci focused their story on Kirk and Spock in the movie's alternative timeline while attempting to preserve key character traits from the previous depictions.

In 2009, an interviewer proposed to Al Jaffee, " There's a group of Mad afficionados who feel that if Harvey Kurtzman had stayed at Mad, the magazine would not only have been different, but better.

" Jaffee, a Kurtzman enthusiast, replied, " And then there's a large group who feel that if Harvey had stayed with Mad, he would have upgraded it to the point that only fifteen people would buy it.

Mad editor Harvey Kurtzman spotted the word printed in the Polish language section of a multi-languaged " Instructions for Use " sheet accompanying a bottle of aspirin, and Kurtzman, who was fascinated with unusual words, decided it would make an appropriate but meaningless background gag.

Kurtzman would spearhead more humorous publications such as Humbug and Help !, but he never again succeeded in recapturing the magic that he had fostered and enjoyed as the editor of Mad.

This story, set in post-war America, would be a pulp-adventure strip inspired by the likes of Terry and the Pirates as well as the EC Comics war stories created by Harvey Kurtzman.

Inspired by the quick money Kurtzman would make in-between advertising assignments with one-page " Hey Look!

But the spirit with which Kurtzman created some of the most masterful stories of their kind would, like the servicemen they commemorated, not easily be forgotten.

Harvey Kurtzman and Wally Wood satirized the strip in Mad as " Little Orphan Melvin ", and later Kurtzman produced a long-running series for Playboy, Little Annie Fanny, in which the lead character is a busty, voluptuous waif who continually loses her clothes and falls into strange sexual situations.

The story had an influence on other humorists, notably Mad founder Harvey Kurtzman ( who borrowed the story's sound effects ), playwright George Axelrod ( who employed Mitty-like fantasies in The Seven Year Itch ) and animation director Chuck Jones ( who created a Mitty-like child character for Warner Bros. cartoons ).

Mad is an American humor magazine founded by editor Harvey Kurtzman and publisher William Gaines in 1952.

Among the loudest of those who insist the magazine is no longer funny are supporters of Harvey Kurtzman, who had the good critical fortune to leave Mad after just 28 issues, before his own formulaic tendencies might have become obtrusive.

Wishmaster is a 1997 American horror film directed by Robert Kurtzman.

Kurtzman is the computer expert of the Stony Man farm.

This decision was joined by Justices Scalia, Thomas, Breyer, and Kennedy, and is perceived as undermining the legacy of Justice Sandra Day O ' Connor's contribution to American jurisprudence by the majority's rejection of the Lemon test as announced in Lemon v. Kurtzman, 403 U. S. 602 ( 1971 ).

The character's name is a variation on veeblefetzer, a word popularized in the 1950s by Harvey Kurtzman in early issues of Mad.

Little Annie Fanny is a comic series created by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder that debuted in the October 1962 issue of the men's magazine Playboy.

Kurtzman is a surname and may refer to:

And far from being just a label of meaningless hype, the concept proved to be a major step for EC, providing Gaines and Feldstein with a forum for expressing their views on the human condition just as Two-Fisted Tales and Frontline Combat were for Harvey Kurtzman.

With Jack Kirby, Will Eisner, Harvey Kurtzman, Gary Panter, and Chris Ware, Crumb was among the artists honored in the exhibition " Masters of American Comics " at the Jewish Museum in New York City, New York, from September 16, 2006 to January 28, 2007.

Its approach was described by Dave Kehr in The New York Times: " Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding on the radio, Ernie Kovacs on television, Stan Freberg on records, Harvey Kurtzman in the early issues of Mad: all of those pioneering humorists and many others realized that the real world mattered less to people than the sea of sounds and images that the ever more powerful mass media were pumping into American lives.

However, just how much of that success was due to the original Kurtzman template that he left for his successor, and how much should be credited to the Al Feldstein system and the depth of the post-Kurtzman talent pool, can be argued without resolution.

During high school, he began to avidly read Mad magazine, which was then edited by Harvey Kurtzman ; this later influenced his work.

In Walz v. Tax Commission, the Court ruled that a legitimate action could not entangle government with religion ; in Lemon v. Kurtzman, these points were combined, declaring that an action was not establishment if

Kurtzman left Gaines ' employ a year later anyway and was replaced by Al Feldstein, who had been Gaines ' most prolific editor during the EC Comics run.

In Mad # 4 ( April – May 1953 ), The Shadow was spoofed by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder.

Lemon v. Kurtzman, 403 U. S. 602 ( 1971 ), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that Pennsylvania's 1968 Nonpublic Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which allowed the state Superintendent of Public Instruction to reimburse nonpublic schools ( most of which were Catholic ) for the salaries of teachers who taught secular material in these nonpublic schools, secular textbooks and secular instructional materials, violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.

The feature was directed by Michael Bay from a screenplay written by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci.

A compromise was reached, and starting in 1988, the Kirby Award was discontinued and two new awards were created: the Eisner Award, managed by Olbrich ; and the Fantagraphics-managed Harvey Award, named for cartoonist Harvey Kurtzman.

Although Aboriginal people faced widespread discrimination in rural Australia at this time, Goolagong was able to play tennis in Barellan from childhood thanks to a kindly resident, Bill Kurtzman, who saw her peering through the fence at the local courts and encouraged her to come in and play.

Another contributor to both Ballantine and the Kurtzman magazines was the cartoonist-author Roger Price.

It was edited by Harvey Kurtzman and published by Hugh Hefner, with only two issues produced in 1957.

Harvey Kurtzman ( October 3, 1924, Brooklyn, New York – February 21, 1993 ) was an American cartoonist and the editor of several comic books and magazines.

Kurtzman was also known for the long-running Little Annie Fanny stories in Playboy ( 1962 – 88 ), satirizing the very attitudes that Playboy promoted.

Because Mad had a considerable effect on popular culture, Kurtzman was later described by The New York Times as having been " one of the most important figures in postwar America.

A compromise was reached, and starting in 1988, the Kirby Award was discontinued and two new awards were created: the Eisner Award, managed by Olbrich and named after Will Eisner ; and the Fantagraphics-managed Harvey Award, named for Harvey Kurtzman.

The " excessive entanglement " test was added in Lemon v. Kurtzman ( vide supra ).

A former cybernetics professor at UCLA, Huntington ' Hunt ' Wethers was recruited by Aaron Kurtzman for his expertise in computers and cybernetics.

Kentucky are founded .” The district court, following the Lemon v. Kurtzman test, entered a preliminary injunction against the newly modified exhibits, finding that there was no secular purpose behind the inherently religious displays.