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{{italic title}}{{Short description|Comic book fillers by Harvey Kurtzman}}
'''''Hey Look!''''' is a series of one-page comic book fillers by American cartoonist [[Harvey Kurtzman]], produced between 1946 and 1949 for [[Timely Comics]].

==Overview==
''Hey Look!'' is one of the few projects on which Kurtzman handled all of the writing and art chores.{{sfn|Reynolds|1999|p=54}}  The series starred an unnamed "big guy" and "little guy".{{sfn|Kitchen|Buhle|2009|p=22}}

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".{{sfn|Kitchen|Buhle|2009|p=22}}

==Publication history==
Harvey Kurtzman had been making [[crossword puzzle]]s for publisher [[Martin Goodman (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.{{sfn|Kitchen|Buhle|2009|p=22}}  Kurtzman produced 150 of the strips between 1946 and 1949.{{sfn|Kitchen|Buhle|2009|p=23}}

In 1991, [[Underground comix|underground]] cartoonist [[Denis Kitchen]]'s [[Kitchen Sink Press]] published a volume reprinting the complete ''Hey Look!'' series ({{ISBN|087816152X}}).{{citation needed|date=October 2012}}

==Reception and legacy==
''[[The Comics Journal]]'' listed ''Hey Look!'' at #63 on their list of The Top 100 (English Language) Comics of the 20th Century.  Critic [[Eric Reynolds (comics)|Eric Reynolds]] in his appreciation of ''Hey Look!'' wrote "the ''Hey Look!'' strips are amongst the purest expression of cartooning ever put to paper".{{sfn|Reynolds|1999|p=54}}  Animator [[Vincent Waller]] made an adaptation of ''Hey Look!'' for ''[[Oh Yeah! Cartoons]]'' in 1998.{{citation needed|date=July 2014}}

==References==
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===Works cited===
{{Refbegin}}
: {{cite book
|last1       = Kitchen
|first1      = Denis
|authorlink1 = Denis Kitchen
|last2       = Buhle
|first2      = Paul
|title       = The Art of Harvey Kurtzman: The Mad Genius of Comics
|url         = https://books.google.com/books?id=CV85LQAACAAJ
|year        = 2009
|publisher   = [[Abrams Books|Harry N. Abrams]]
|isbn        = 978-0-8109-7296-4}}
: {{cite journal
|first        = Eric
|last         = Reynolds
|author-link  = Eric Reynolds (comics)
|journal      = [[The Comics Journal]]
|issue        = 210
|title        = ''Hey Look!'' 1946–1949 Harvey Kurtzman
|page         = 54
|date=February 1999
|issn         = 0194-7869
|editor-first = Tom
|editor-last  = Spurgeon
|editor-link  = Tom Spurgeon
|publisher    = [[Fantagraphics Books]]}}
{{Refend}}

==Further reading==
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* "[http://johnkstuff.blogspot.jp/2008/04/harvey-kurtzman-opposing-poses-life.html Harvey Kurtzman - Opposing Poses, LIFE]"—analysis of ''Hey Look!'' by John Kricfalusi
*"[http://johnkstuff.blogspot.jp/2010/11/cartoony-graphic-and-directly-to-point.html Cartoony, Graphic and Directly to the Point: Kurtzman's ''Hey Look'']"—another analysis by John Kricfalusi

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