Best known for his wildly imaginative, gleefully absurdist television show in the 1950s, Ernie Kovacs (1919 1962) was also a notorious illustrator, novelist, essayist, newspaper columnist, and poet. In celebration of this cockeyed genius and his prolific creative output, Fantagraphics presents a career retrospective featuring never-before-seen photos from Kovacs's archive; excerpts of his magazine articles, columns and books, hand-notated TV scripts: a smattering of his illustrated profuselies, the wacky improvisational sketches he drew on air; and more.In celebration of this cockeyed genius and his prolific creative output, Fantagraphics presents a career retrospective of Ernie Kovacs featuring never-before-seen material from Kovacs's archive.
![Ernie in Kovacsland: Writings, Drawings, and Photographs from Television's Original Genius [Paperback]](/itemImage/2/7/1/7/2_6858318.jpg "Ernie in Kovacsland: Writings, Drawings, and Photographs from Television's Original Genius [Paperback]")