Keen comic-book fans may well be aware of the satirist magazine MAD that was first published in the 1950s but they might not be so familiar with its creator, Harvey Kurtzman. In the programme notes for the Edinburgh International Film Festival, festival producer Emma Boa states that his “commitment to integrity and challenging the status quo with humour, edge and resilience is a hymn for our times”. With his sophomore feature, documentary filmmaker Bart Simpson paints a vivid portrait of the man behind the MADness and ‘The Mad World of Harvey Kurtzman’ celebrates its world premiere in Edinburgh. I was fortunate to sit down with the director Simpson to discuss the piece.

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