![]() ![]() What's interesting to me now (okay, what's additionally interesting to me now) are all the topical period references to Jack and Bobby Kennedy, James Bond, The Beatles, Martin Luther King and all manner of 60's icons. ![]() Well, it's many years later and, boy, am I glad they reprinted them all in a handsome volume. I could never suitably explain why, but in the same way that a Fellini film is so more enticing than reality, those painted cartoons depicting the escapades of the buxalicious Miss Fanny were far more erotic than the photos of the real women in the magazine. Although the photos did plenty to stoke my pre-pubescent desires what really got my young blood boiling were the Annie Fanny strips in the back. We used to sit down there, pretending to play poker and making card houses while leafing through the magazines. When I was 8 years old my friend Jamie had a bunch of his dad's Playboys in a shed in the basement of his house. Also included, a detailed behind-the-scenes look at the strip's creative process, featuring never-before-seen art and preliminary drawings! This first volume takes us through the swinging Sixties with the Beatles, Civil Rights, and the beginning of the Sexual Revolution. Trend setting in its use of color, irreverent in its satirical look at the changing face of America, and a masterpiece of technique, this definitive collection of one of world's most controversial comic strips is long overdue. Comics collaborator Will Elder (and sometimes Frank Frazetta, Russ Heath, and Jack Davis!) to create a Playboy icon second only to the bunny and a risque comics icon second to none! Each volume showcases over 200 pages of stunningly rendered stories from the sexy strip's 25-year run. Kurtzman, creator of Mad magazine and godfather of underground comix, teamed with longtime E.C. Dark Horse Comics and Playboy Enterprises are proud to present for the first time ever the more than 400 pages of the late, great Harvey Kurtzman's Little Annie Fanny, collected in two deluxe volumes. ![]()
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