hkz 04 hey look!
hkz 04 hey look!
Kitchen Sink 1991
Hey Look! is a series of one-page comic book fillers by American cartoonist Harvey Kurtzman, produced between 1946 and 1949 for Timely Comics. Hey Look! is one of the few projects on which Kurtzman handled all of the writing and art chores. The series starred an unnamed “big guy” and “little guy”.
While the pages showed the budding talent of the young Kurtzman, the genius he would display later was not evident in the early strips. According to Kurtzman, “the first was horrible alongside the last”.
Harvey Kurtzman had been making crossword puzzles for publisher Martin Goodman in the 1940s. A distant relative of Goodman’s, Stan Lee, worked as an editor for Goodman’s Timely Comics (a precursor to Marvel Comics) He offered Kurtzman work doing one-page fillers. Lee gave the strip its title. Kurtzman produced 150 of the strips between 1946 and 1949.
In 1991, underground cartoonist Denis Kitchen’s Kitchen Sink Press published a volume reprinting the complete Hey Look! series