* Harvey Kurtzman; Helped Found Mad Magazine

Harvey Kurtzman, 68, the cartoonist who helped create Mad magazine and the Playboy magazine comic strip “Little Annie Fanny.” Kurtzman went to work in 1950 at EC Comics, whose owner, William M. Gaines, encouraged Kurtzman’s idea for Mad. The satirical magazine began publication in 1952. He went on to work for Trump, a magazine backed by Hugh Hefner. His books included “My Life as a Cartoonist,” “Strange Adventures” and, most recently, “From Aargh! to Zap!: Harvey Kurtzman’s Visual History of the Comics.” In Mt. Vernon, N.Y., on Sunday of liver cancer.