Jan 26, 2010 his work as a writer covers everything from the plays knock knock and little murders to the screenplay for the robert altman film popeye to the great comic book heroes one of the first ever and one of the best essays on comic book fandom in america. A notoriously prolific cartoonist, feiffer is known for everything from political cartoons, childrens books, illustration, plays, films scripts, comic books, as well as his long running village voice strip, feiffer. The objectification of women in comic books fantasy magazine. Jules feiffer s the great comic book heroes is a loving appreciation of the golden age of hero comics. In 1986 he won the pulitzer prize for his editorial cartooning in the village voice, and in 2004 was inducted into the comic book hall of fame. For many who purchased the book or studied a library copy, the great comic book heroes is fondly remembered for providing a first exposure to a battery of artists and.
Jules ralph feiffer born january 26, 1929 is an american cartoonist and author, who was. I swiped ideas diligently from the swipers, drew sixtyfour pages in two days, sometimes one day, stapled the product together, and took it out on the street where kids my age sat behind orange crates selling and trading comic books. Nor should it be too much to ask to see female characters portrayed in a realistic manner. Kill my mother is a loving homage to the pulpinspired films and comic strips of his youth. Buy a cheap copy of the great comic book heroes by jules feiffer. I cant quite tell how insightful im able to be about the stuff. Compiled, introduced and annotated by jules feiffer. American idiots, american killers, and the american. Jules feiffer is currently considered a single author. May 10, 2012 giant muscles on male comic book heroes are for the benefit of a male audiencetheir supposed primary readershipnot a female one.
For many who purchased the book or studied a library copy, the great comic book heroes is fondly remembered for providing a first exposure to a battery of artists and cartoonists from joe shuster to bob kane to will eisner. The great comic book heroes the golden age of comic books. Feiffer was born in new york city, in the borough of the bronx, and attended the former james monroe high school. Sub mariner, captain america, plastic man, the spirit, afterword.
With cousin joseph, feiffer builds on his latelife conversion to cinematic noir, bowing, as ever, to youthful heroes will eisner and milton caniff, but ultimately creating a masterpiece that through his unique perspective and comic strip noir style illuminates the very origins of hollywood and its role in creating the bipolar nation weve become. Jules feiffer comments in the great comic book heroes, that supermans bumbling and klutzy alterego clark kent is superman projecting his own image of the average american male feiffer 347349. List of all male superheroes names of all male superheroes. Feb 26, 2016 26 of the greatest black characters in comic book history. The great comic book heroes, by jules feiffer fonts in use. It was the great comic book heroes edited by jules feiffer. The book was designed by paul bacon, who passed away in june 2016 at the age of 91. Jules ralph feiffer born january 26, 19291 is an american syndicated cartoonist, most notable for his longrun comic strip titled feiffer. Cartoonist jules feiffer born january 26, 1929 put together this homage to the comic books of his youth in 1965. Feiffer ends his fabulous 1965 essay on comic book history with an argument that comics are junk, but that junk is good, even necessary. In the case of clark kent, superman is the real man, and clark kent is the actual mask, the facade that superman pulls off in public. Of all the heroes in the marvel universe, these are the ones i like most. The great book heroes annotated and compiled by jules feiffer is a collectors delight.
Sep 21, 2010 the great book heroes annotated and compiled by jules feiffer is a collectors delight. The transformation of tradition, harry brod, a professor of philosophy and humanities in the department of philosophy and religion at the university of northern iowa, writes. The great comicbook heroes compiled, introduced and. Like the asimov and feiffer books, the sincerest form of parody is partly an exercise in nostalgia, so in making my selections, i think its fair to give some. For many who purchased the book or studied a library copy, the great comic book heroes is fondly remembered for providing a first exposure to a battery of artists and cartoonists from joe shuster to bob kane to will. As feiffer would recall in the great comic book heroes. Vanguard animation producerscreenwriter michael chase walker the last unicorn, catch a fire. The young protagonist of meanwhile, raymond, is deeply engrossed in his comic book when his mother calls. In the introduction to the great comic book heroes, jules feiffer writes that this is supermans joke on the rest of us. Below are my hard hero statues of my top four favorite male marvels pictured with jean. In 1965, feiffer wrote what is arguably the first critical history of the comic book superheroes of the late 30s and early 40s, including plastic man, batman, superman, the spirit, and others. Fantagraphics is proud to publish jules feiffers long outofprint and seminal essay of comics criticism, the great comic book heroes, in a compact and affordable size. In every large seaport there are gmen known as harbor police.
He has created more than 35 books, plays and screenplays. Aug 22, 2014 in 1965, bonanza books released the great comic book heroes, a 192page book of reprinted 1940s comic book stories compiled, introduced and annotated by jules feiffer. Jules ralph feiffer born january 26, 1929 is an american cartoonist and author, who was considered the most widely read satirist in the country. The book is slender and offers little text by feiffer, but reprints in color early stories of the original superheroes. He wrote the animated short, munro, which won an academy award for best animated short. Feiffer furthermore published the influential book the great comic book heroes 1965, one of the first essays on superhero comics. That summer, one of the first big conventions for comic book collectors was held in new york. Its very pleasurable, which as jules feiffer made clear in his the great comic book heroes, is the appeal of so much junk. Jules ralph feiffer is an american cartoonist and author, who was considered the most widely read satirist in the country. Meanwhile, jules feiffers 1965 book the great comic book heroes, featuring an impressive array of golden age reprints, came belatedly to my. If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author. Hoping to avoid having to respond, raymond applies a longstanding comic book tradition. They are proof of power and have nothing to do with pandering sexually to women, who, by the way, would design male comic book heroes very, very differently if we assumed that their main function in. Buy the great comic book heroes by jules feiffer online at alibris.
Created as comicbook heroes, they remain more widely known through television, the movies and in the case of batman and superman through a vigorous presence in american and european popular culture that ensures their recognition by millions who have never read a batman comic or seen a superman film. Jules feiffer looks at some of the great heroes of the. Feiffer himself tried to fill in those blanks in his 1965 book the great comic book heroes, in which he attempted to make sense not only of the spirit. In 1965, bonanza books released the great comic book heroes, a 192page book of reprinted 1940s comic book stories compiled, introduced and annotated by jules feiffer. So i think the difference is that if youre a male and reading the cartoons, you identify with what the men have to say, and kind of overlook the strips that are prowoman as just something else again. Similarly, jules feiffer largely relied on his memories of the stories from his original reading when making selections for his seminal the great comic book heroes in 1965. In the great comic book heroes, jules feiffer writes more negatively about clark kent. Between 1945 and 1950, i read quite a few comic books to our thenunlettered son. Just go to a comic book convention where fans are treated to the sight of several scantily clad professional models dressed in the costumes of popular comic book babes. These are the superheroes from the dc universe that i like most. These models are hired by the comics companies to promote the. The great comic book heroes was a distillation of the dawn of the superhero comics in the early 1940s. In the book, feiffer writes about the unique place of comics in the space between high and low art and the power that this space offers both the creator and reader. In 1965, feiffer wrote what is arguably the first critical history of the comic book superheroes of the late 1930s and early 1940s.
The library of congress has recognized his remarkable legacy, from 1946 to the present, as a cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter, adult. Hes written adult books for children and childish books for adults. Though they are meant to be identifiable, with all. The comic book industry is by far a male dominated industry. His work as a writer covers everything from the plays knock knock and little murders to the screenplay for the robert altman film popeye to the great comic book heroes one of the first ever and one of the best essays on comic book fandom in america. Written in 1964 the book traces the early days of comic strips and is well illustrated with the first issues of prominent superheroes. Meanwhile, jules feiffers 1965 book the great comic book heroes, featuring an impressive array of golden age reprints, came. Jules feiffers historic essay, available again in a compact and affordable size. Teams objects publishers locations occupations species. A great book about the super heroes of comic books superman, captain marvel, human torch, the flash, green lantern, the spectre, hawkman, wonder woman. He wrote the animated short munro, which won an academy award for best animated short film in 1961. Another aspect of the superhero gaze is that they represent almost something otherworldly as well. Cbr reflects on over two dozen black heroes who have had the greatest impact in comics and beyond.
Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. Jules ralph feiffer born january 26, 1929 is an awardwinning american syndicated cartoonist and author, who was considered the most widely read satirist in the country. In 1965, feiffer wrote what is arguably the first critical history of the comic book superheroes of the late 1930s and early 1940s, including plastic man, batman. Fantagraphics is proud to publish jules feiffer s long outofprint and seminal. He began working as just a studio man he would do erasing, cleanup. Comic book heroes westfield chermside, chermside, queensland 4032 rated 4. The great comic book heroes by jules feiffer alibris. With cousin joseph, feiffer builds on his latelife conversion to cinematic noir, bowing, as ever, to youthful heroes will eisner and milton caniff, but ultimately creating a masterpiece that through his unique perspective and comicstrip noir style illuminates the very origins of hollywood and its role in creating the bipolar nation weve become.
The fellow with the eyeglasses and the acne and the walk girls laughed at wasnt real, didnt exist, was a sacrificial disguise, an act of discreet martyrdom. In 1965, feiffer wrote what is arguably the first critical history of the comic book superheroes of the late 30s and early 40s, including plastic man, batman. They are proof of power and have nothing to do with pandering sexually to women, who, by the way, would design male comic book heroes very, very differently if we assumed. The great comic book heroes, the origins and early. Its an enjoyable and nostalgic, if brief, ride, and worthwhile if the price is right. In 1965, feiffer wrote what is arguably the first critical history of the comic book superheroes of the late 1930s and early 1940s, including plastic man, batman, superman, the spirit and others. This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and if not signed in for advertising.
Fantagraphics is proud to publish jules feiffers long outofprint and seminal. A wild madhouse riot of 1950s comic book satire print. Jun 01, 2012 similarly, jules feiffer largely relied on his memories of the stories from his original reading when making selections for his seminal the great comic book heroes in 1965. He won the pulitzer prize in 1986 as americas leading editorial cartoonist, and in 2004 he was inducted into the comic book hall of fame. Apr, 2003 jules feiffer s the great comic book heroes is a loving appreciation of the golden age of hero comics. Feiffer was not just some comic book fan publishing a book of reprints. The original version of this long outofprint book was first published in 1965 by dial press and featured more than 100 pages of comic book stories from 1939 to 1950 starring superman, the human. The bob marley story, circus galacticus, rotten island options and adapts academy award winner jules feiffers graphic novel, trapped in a comic book as an epic animated liveaction feature. Jules feiffer, author of the phantom tollbooth, on librarything. A wild madhouse riot of 1950s comic book satire print magazine. I want to publish a book on the great comicbook heroes and i dont know anybody else who could write it except you. Trapped in a comic book to become animationliveaction hybrid. Since the 1930s, comic fans across the globe have read in awe as weve watched these men and women clad in tights battle the evil that we couldnt.
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