 Comics historian Don Markstein said that Little Annie Fanny " reached a high point seldom achieved by cartoon art " . Writing for his Don Markstein 's Toonopedia website : " Harvey Kurtzman ... strove for most of his life to advance the boundaries of comics , not just in terms of storytelling but also in production values " , concluding that Little Annie Fanny achieved at least the latter . About its venue he said , " Playboy magazine , whatever you may say about its content , always did a first @-@ rate job of printing color pictures . " According to comics commentators Randy Duncan and Matthew J. Smith , the series " reads today as an amusing look at the evolving mores of the sexual revolution " . Comics editor Monte Beauchamp said that Little Annie Fanny was " the most elaborate comic strip ever created " and cartoonist @-@ critic R. C. Harvey called it " a masterpiece ... the most lavish color comic strip of all time " . 
