There were only two issues of Harvey Kurtzman's Trump, and Wood had only three contributions, short satires on Candid Camera, Elvis Presley and Disney. Hansel and Gretel is from the first issue (January, 1957), scripted by cartoonist Ed Fisher. The trapper Troldheim is a caricature of Senator Joseph McCarthy, with the Troldheim name suggesting he is a menacing troll lying in wait to ensnare anyone.
Beautiful stuff! Woody at his best. I love the painted backgrounds with the "inked" characters "moving" on them just like a real Dinsey cartoon. The Ed Fisher writing is not funny at all, which is par for the course for too much of the stuff Harvey put out, unfortunately...
ReplyDelete