Happy Birthday Jules Feiffer!!!

[Ogami]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Feiffer

 

He even got a nod on Garrison Keiller's Literature program on NPR today!

 

 

Show your appreciation by telling your favorite Feiffer story or posting your favorite comic!

[jools&jim]

 

Here's one of my favorite Feiffer quotes, from his absolutely essential book, The Great Comic Book Heroes:

 

"Comic books, first of all are junk. To accuse them of being what they are is to make no accusation at all: there is no such thing as uncorrupt junk or moral junk or educational junk—though attempts at the latter have, from time to time, been foisted on us. But education is not the purpose of junk. Junk is there to entertain on the basest, most compromised of levels. It finds the lowest fantasmal common denominator and proceeds from there. It’s choice of tone is dependent on its choice of audience, so that women’s magazines will make a pretense at veneer scorned by movie-fan magazines, but both are, unarguably, junk. If not to their publishers, certainly to a good many of their readers who, when challenged, will say defiantly: 'I know it’s junk, but I like it.' Which is the whole point about junk. It is there to be nothing else but liked..."