“Most of them don’t know who I am,” said Jules Feiffer of his students at Stony Brook Southampton. “They know I’m famous for something, but they’re not sure what.”
That should change if those students purchase a copy of “Explainers,” a collection of all of the comic strips that Mr. Feiffer wrote and illustrated for The Village Voice from 1956 to ’66. The volume, recently published by Fantagraphics Books, shows the emergence of one of the most original social and political commentators in America at a time when protests for civil rights and against the Vietnam War were beginning to change the country. His career with The Voice, which lasted for more than four decades, would include a Pulitzer Prize in 1986.
The Bronx-born Mr. Feiffer grew up enjoying comics and early... more
That should change if those students purchase a copy of “Explainers,” a collection of all of the comic strips that Mr. Feiffer wrote and illustrated for The Village Voice from 1956 to ’66. The volume, recently published by Fantagraphics Books, shows the emergence of one of the most original social and political commentators in America at a time when protests for civil rights and against the Vietnam War were beginning to change the country. His career with The Voice, which lasted for more than four decades, would include a Pulitzer Prize in 1986.
The Bronx-born Mr. Feiffer grew up enjoying comics and early... more
