Feiffer
Posted on February 3rd, 2011 by steve
Passed along books are great.
That’s how we ended up with dog-eared copies of Jules Feiffer’s first books, collections of his beat era comic strips for The Village Voice.
Feiffer did his weekly loose, sketchy strip for 42 years – eventually canceling it when he felt the audience just wasn’t there anymore.
‘you can practically smell the espresso, the unfiltered ciggies, the lanolin whiff of woolly jumpers.’
Feiffer’s social commentary, dark humor and neurotic characters – with NYC undertones – predated Seinfeld by years.
A new edition captures the early days. And a memoir is also available.
Website here. More below.
[…] ‘ella’ on Barbarella was probably suggested by Feiffer’s Passionella, a brilliant satire on the Cinderella theme and much of American […]