Everyone knows a Feiffer illustration when they see one: His characters
leap across the page, each line belying humor and psychological insight.
Over Feiffer's prolific 70-year career, his nimble and singular
imagination has given us new perspectives as well as biting satires on
politics, love, marriage, and religion--alternating with stories imbued
with the playful anarchy of a child. Feiffer's varied output includes
children's books (The Phantom Tollbooth and Bark, George), plays
(Little Murders), movies (Carnal Knowledge and Popeye), and comic
strips (most notably in his Pulitzer Prize-winning Village Voice comic
strip of 42 years). Out of Line: The Art of Jules Feiffer is the
long-awaited illustrated retrospective of Feiffer's celebrated career,
providing a revealing glimpse into his creative process and his role as
America's foremost Renaissance man of the arts.
**Praise for the work of Jules Feiffer:
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"Jules Feiffer is not only an Academy Award-winning filmmaker, but a
Pulitzer Prize winner, a playwright, a teacher, a children's book author
and illustrator, and a screenwriter. He is also one of the greatest
cartoonists working today." --Robert Osborne
"Jules Feiffer is a long-distance runner. . . . He has been operating at
the highest level of his craft, producing a body of work that ranks with
the finest ever produced in this country." --Pete Hamill
"Samuel Johnson said he hoped God would think he had made good use of
his God-given talents. Jules Feiffer need have no dread of such an
audit. He came into this world capable of doing amusing and enchanting
things with both language and drawing instruments. He has used these
gifts as a faithful and tireless servant of humankind. What has made his
services so welcome for so many years now is his possession, in addition
to high intelligence, of something no hypocrite or egomaniac could
claim, which is a humane sense of humor." --Kurt Vonnegut
"Jules Feiffer, prolific hand and eye behind so many brilliant comics,
screenplays, novels, [and] illustrations . . . remains one of the
signature voices of a long era of American satire and dissent, the
bridge from Lenny Bruce to the Simpsons." --Jonathan Lethem
"Jules Feiffer was one of (if not) the first of the early writer/artists
to emerge from the comic book ghetto into the literary/art world."
--Will Eisner
