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To: BenLurkin

I recall seeing his work for several years in the local papers. Sunday sections in both the Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press carried his editorial comics or media reviews. Feiffer was popular with printed media not just because most of his work was clever, but because his panels were usually done in high contrast black line grey mass and white negative spaces. In other words,they printed easy and told their story in a quick, graphic manner.


8 posted on 01/21/2025 6:51:42 PM PST by lee martell
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To: lee martell

My father bought me a book called “The Great Comic Book Superheroes”. The volume was a great selection of golden age superhero comic stories.

However, Jules Feiffer was chosen to write the introduction, and it was nearly pornographic. My father had excised the pages, and I only found out was in them years later.

Feiffer should have known that at least SOME of his audience would be composed of nine-year old boys whose fathers wanted them to have some knowledge of the golden age heroes who were the progenitors of the bronze age I grew up with. I suspect Feiffer didn’t care.


14 posted on 01/21/2025 8:01:13 PM PST by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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