Pinch me so I'll know I'm not dreaming! This is too good to be true! ASIFA-Hollywood has just put up a whopping, large post on Fearless Fosdick, the best cartoon strip (actually a strip-within-a-strip) in the American newspapers of my time!
Many thanks to ace-cartoonist and Al Capp fan, Mike Fontanelli for putting this together! Mike knows what the good stuff is and he serves up only the best. Many thanks also to ASIFA webmaster Steve Worth, for giving the drawings the star treatment. Compare the way the drawings look here, with my layout, to the infinitely superior way they look on the ASIFA site. Steve is far and away the best web designer I know of.
Mike makes the point in his article that Fearless Fosdick was the major inspiration for Kurtzman's MAD. Looking at the evidence, I don't doubt it for an instant.
Incidentally, did you know that the first 12 issues of Mad have been collected in two volumes of the set shown above? I haven't seen them, so I don't know what they look like, but here's a link to a bookseller that stocks them:
http://www.kenpiercebooks.com/mad.htm
Talking about Archie, what do you think of the new look the comic company is giving them? 
Here's (above) a page from the new Archie, borrowed from KevinWolf.com. When Cartoon Brew did a piece on this they were inundated with letters. 
