Listen to the whole interview:
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/2010/04/27/segments/154024
Award-winning cartoonist, playwright, and author Jules Feiffer, talks about his life and his rise from a fearful kid with learning problems and a controlling mother, to working under the legendary Will Eisner and creating his subversive graphic novella Munro. His memoir is Backing into Forward.
One of my all time favorite artists, my first exposure to Feiffer was probably his book 'The Great Comic Book Heroes', Feiffer's Village Voice cartoons were before my time, but I've really gotten into them thanks to the numerous reprints Fantagraphics has put out and it's amazing how relevant they still are.
To me Feiffer and Hirshfeld are two of NYC's most iconic artists.
cha5 1 year ago