Shagbag Jones wrote:
As much as I love Kurtzman, if I'm being perfectly honest I must admit that I find his post-Mad stuff not quite satisfactory.

Wow, I don't think I ever committed that thought to words before! Feels at once heretical and liberating.
It's true, I'm afraid.  Kurtzman really did peak with Mad comics (and the concurrent EC war comics).  Most of his various humor magazine work is less satisfying for the reasons I cited above.  And although Little Annie Fanny marks a welcome return to sequential storytelling and has some beautiful layouts and artwork, he'd really lost his edge as a writer by then.  By the time of LAF he'd become the voice of the establishment, crankily making fun of anything new and different simply because it was new and different (for example, his Beatles parody hinges on the "joke" that their music is just unlistenable noise).  I do really like Jungle Book, though... that's his best post-Mad-comic work.