Mike Lynch Cartoons (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
The Kenneth and Harle Montomery Endowment at Dartmouth College presents Montgomery Fellow Jules Feiffer in a presentation dated July 15, 2009. This runs an hour and 18 minutes.
THE BEAT (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The Chicago Humanities Festival this weekend presents the pen-ultimate panel, entitled “The Not-So-Funny Situation of Alternative Comix” and featuring Matt Groening, Lynda Barry, Jules Feiffer, and Chris Ware. Tickets are $5. We are likely living in the golden age of graphic novels and alternative comics, but the artists themselves are facing what may be the most significant...
BOOKSTEVE'S LIBRARY (Free subscription) | yesterday
... OF THE COMICS in a store window while my dad and I were waiting for a bus and just had to have it! Jules Feiffer's re-issued THE GREAT COMIC BOOK HEROES and THE PENGUIN BOOK OF COMICS quickly followed. But does having a few books around the house constitute a "library?" The book that I have long considered to be the cornerstone of my actual collecting days is in fact the...
Emerging Writer (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
My favourite children's book, full of wit and wordplay. Have you ever read it? I adore it. I reread it often as a child ann now often use it when teaching. Author Norton Juster and illustrator Jules Feiffer and now, after 49 years, they are g etting back together again. The book is called The Odious Ogre. An brutish Ogre who meets a kindly girl who teaches him a lesson he is not likely...
A Year of Reading (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
... who love graphic novels. There is a chapter of comics about kids (the first being Clifford by Jules Feiffer!), a chapter about Funny Animals, Fantasyland and more. So many great comics from the 1930s to the 1960s. Treasury is definitely the right word for this collection! The introduction to the treasury is by Jon Scieszka and he shares his own experiences with comics as a child and...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Lucy Knisley's comic "Downloading Optimism: Pessimism Detected" is a thoughtful response to a panel where great indie comix creators (Linda Barry, Jules Feiffer, Matt Groening, Chris Ware) decried online comics and online reading. Click through for the whole thing. Downloading Optimism (Thanks, Ape Lad!)...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Lucy Knisley's comic "Downloading Optimism: Pessimism Detected" is a thoughtful response to a panel where great indie comix creators (Linda Barry, Jules Feiffer, Matt Groening, Chris Ware) decried online comics and online reading. Click through for the whole thing. Downloading Optimism (Thanks, Ape Lad!)...
Emdashes (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
... and four-page cartoon spread graced last week's issue, appeared with Matt Groening, Lynda Barry, Jules Feiffer, and Michael Miner for a discussion on the dire state of alternative comics. And Saturday morning, a panel of New Yorker cartoonists assembled at Thorne Auditorium in the Northwestern University School of Law. The popular Illinois attorney general Lisa Madigan introduced...
The Daily Cartoonist (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Several stories have been filed about last weekend’s Chicago Humanities Festival featuring several notable cartoonists. The Chicago Tribune writes about New Yorker cartoonists Pat Byrnes, Edward Koren, Roz Chast and New Yorker cartoon editor Robert Mankoff about cartooning humor for The New Yorker. The Tribune also write about Jules Feiffer, Chris Ware, Lynda Barry and Matt [...]...
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Should you be a cartoonist? Sound like an enriching career? Have you considered a career in anything else? No, you have not? There is nothing else you would be happy doing? Where were you Saturday? Presumably, at the Francis W. Parker School in Lincoln Park, attending the Chicago Humanities Festival. Presumably, you were following cartoonist Jules Feiffer, who is 80, bald, his ears curling...
Living In<BR>The Bonus Round (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
... blacklisted in the 1950s. Scheduled to appear on the panel are Lee Grant (actor, director), Jules Feiffer (playwright, cartoonist), Victor Navasky (former editor of The Nation, author of Naming Names), Christopher Trumbo (playwright, son of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo ), Joe Gilford (playwright, son of M Adeline Lee and Jack Gilford ), Jean Rouverol (actor, author) and Cliff Carpenter...
JeyamArticle (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... Depardieu, an exuberant admirer, brings him to his mom’s country home for the weekend. Written by Jules Feiffer, with a score by John Kander, this Franco-American curio is appallingly poor. Cast includes Adolph Green, Gerard Depardieu, Linda Lavin, Laura Benson, Micheline Presle, and Ludivine Sagnier. (101 minutes, 1989)Believe in Me: Donovan moves to a tiny Oklahoma town in 1964...
Travel (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... Depardieu, an exuberant admirer, brings him to his mom's country home for the weekend. Written by Jules Feiffer, with a score by John Kander, this Franco-American curio is appallingly poor. Cast includes Adolph Green, Gerard Depardieu, Linda Lavin, Laura Benson, Micheline Presle, and Ludivine Sagnier. (101 minutes, 1989) Dying Young: Aimless youthful lady replies to a newspaper ad...
Journalista (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
... combined. ——— ¡Journalista! continues after this commercial message. ——— Literary Comics [Profile] Jules Feiffer Link: Karla Araujo The renowned cartoonist and proto-graphic novelist reflects back upon his life and career. [Profile] Peter Kuper Link: Alex Dueben A chat with the Diario de Oaxaca author. [Commentary] It doesn’t mean shit Link: Devon Tincknell A Freudian analysis of...
The Freedom Fighter's Journal (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... obscure movie from the l970s called Little Murders. The writer, Pulitzer-Prize-winning cartoonist Jules Feiffer, predicted that the '60s would unleash a feral, primitive society. The movie has a checkered history. It started out as a play on Broadway in the mid-'60s that was such a bomb, it closed after seven performances. Audiences were shocked and horrified by the apocryphal world...
