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ABOUT JULES FEIFFER: |
Jules Feiffer writes novels, screenplays and children's books. Also, he is a superb cartoonist and his internationally syndicated strip ran for 42 years in The Village Voice between 1956 and 1997, weaving the social, political, and personal into a perceptive, challenging, often hilarious mix. He is the author of the plays Little Murders, Knock Knock, Grown Ups and A Think Piece and of the screenplays for Carnal Knowledge and Popeye. More details can be found at Jules Feiffer.com. If you know of any other comic-related reading
recommendations made by Jules Feiffer in interviews or articles
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Nozone IX: Empire edited by Nicholas Blechman "For so many of us angry at so much that goes on today with so little in print to represent our frustration, this book of graphic rage is a needed step in the right direction. If you think you're all but alone because that's what the experts and pollsters tell you, peruse these pages and sigh with relief." From the back cover blurb |
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Wreckage Begins With A W: Cartoons Of The Bush Administration by Jeff Danziger "Jeff Danziger's muscular line cracks like a whip, flailing into shreds the hypocrisies that make up the body politic. Drawing like a dream, he renders these smart, witty (often hilarious), comic nightmares. His rage is our solace." From the back cover blurb |
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The Spirit by Will Eisner "Will Eisner was an early master of the German expressionist approach in comic books - the Fritz Lang school... Eisner's world seemed more real than the world of other comic book men because it looked that much more like a movie... His stories carried the same weight as his line, involving the reader, setting the terms, making the most unlikely of plot twists credible... I collected Eisners and studied them fastidiously. And I wasn't the only one. Alone among comic book men, Eisner was a cartoonist other cartoonists swiped from." From The Great Comic Book Heroes |
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Beg The Question by Bob Fingerman "A sprawling, sexy, smart, nerve-wracking, almost minute by minute look at the friendships, love life and career of a young cartoonist trying to make it in anyway he can in a city that couldn't care less. But I cared and so will you. Bob Fingerman writes and draws on the dismal subculture of comics-limbo with the eye of an anthropologist and the gifts of a born storyteller." From the advertising blurb |
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The Ride Together |
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The Four Immigrants Manga: A Japanese
Experience in San Francisco 1904-1924 by Henry Yoshitaka Kiyama "Forty years before the birth of the underground and alternative comix, Henry Kiyama was experimenting in comic strip form with comics as autobiography, comics as personal statement, comics as sociology, anthropology, and political science, not to mention comics as a comment on racial and class attitudes and antagonism. In a time when traditional comics didn't dare venture into this territory, Kiyama covers it as a mater of course, as if his strip is no more or less than his bemused comic diary. It is that, but it is more, much more." From the back cover blurb |
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