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- 9780226240350
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226240355
ISBN-13
9780226240350
eBay Product ID (ePID)
110880853
Product Key Features
Book Title
Backing Into Forward : a Memoir
Number of Pages
456 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General, American / General, Literary, Artists, Architects, Photographers
Publication Year
2012
Genre
Literary Criticism, Art, Biography & Autobiography, Humor
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
24.8 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2011-035542
Reviews
Jules Feiffer's original and neurotic voice. . . . reinvented comics in the 1950s and made possible what's now called the 'graphic novel.' His engaging new memoir is told in that same witty and perceptive New York cadence, mellowed and laced with wisdom. He's an inspiration., Backing into Forward is . . . .youthful, full of insouciance, vanity and playfulness. While other accomplished men bronze their success or dip it in amber, Feiffer treats his own as one big wonderful caper., Writing with wit, angst, honesty, and self-insights, Feiffer shares a vast and complex interior emotional landscape.
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
818/.5409 B
Table Of Content
Part One: Gunslinger Boy Cartoonist Comics Caravan The Bar Mitzvah Hostage A Jewish Mother Joke Danny Red Ed Idol Stomachache One Basket Ed Theater Fear Breakthrough Breakup Road Movie "Jules, What Are You Doing Here?" I Ain't A-Gonna Be Treated This A-Way Joe The Secret of My Success; Or, Over the Cliff Madness SOS Camp Gorgon Pony Fifth Street Part Two: Famous The Village A Dance to Spring Hackwork The Voice Odets is Back! Lucking into the Zeitgeist Our Gang Red Scare The Mating Dance Heckle and Jeckle Meet Mike and Elaine Spokesman Tedso Playboy at the Second City Process Sellout Herb Alex and Al Salon White Liberal The Warrior Liberal The Adjustment Hall of Fame College Days Dave Birth Trauma Death Trauma Part Three: Another Country Closet America The Assassination of Cary Grant Harry, The Rat Working Unmaking It Into Exile Yaddo What I Did on My Summer Vacation First Mistake Flop Little Wonders Riot My Candidate The Comeback Kid Pro Bono Playwright The Jewish Mother Cabal No Sense of Direction; Or, How to Get from Carnal Knowledge to Bark, George Alice Mimi Voiceless The Professor of I Don't Know Where I'm Going with This but Let's Find Out Bedtime for Memoir And in Conclusion Last Panels Acknowledgments
Synopsis
Subversive, funny, and effortlessly droll, Jules Feiffer's cartoons were all over New York in the 1960s and '70s--featured in the Village Voice , but also cut out and pinned to bulletin boards in offices and on refrigerators at home. Feiffer describes himself as "lucking into the zeitgeist," and there's some truth to the sentiment; Feiffer's brand of satire reflected Americans' ambivalence about the Vietnam War, changing social mores, and much more. Feiffer's memoir, Backing into Forward , like his cartoons, is sharply perceptive with a distinctive bite of mordant humor. Beginning with his childhood in Brooklyn, Feiffer paints a picture of a troubled kid with an overbearing mother and a host of crippling anxieties. From there, he discusses his apprenticeship with his hero, Will Eisner, and his time serving in the military during the Korean War, which saw him both feigning a breakdown and penning a cartoon narrative called "Munro" that solidified his distinctive aesthetic as an artist. While Feiffer's voice grounds the book, the sheer scope of his artistic accomplishment, from his cartoons turning up in the New Yorker , Playboy , and the Nation to his plays and film scripts, is remarkable and keeps the narrative bouncing along at a speedy clip. A compelling combination of a natural sense of humor and a ruthless dedication to authenticity, Backing into Forward is full of wit and verve, often moving but never sentimental. "Jules Feiffer's original and neurotic voice. . . . reinvented comics in the 1950s and made possible what's now called the 'graphic novel.' His engaging new memoir is told in that same witty and perceptive New York cadence, mellowed and laced with wisdom. He's an inspiration."--Art Spiegelman
LC Classification Number
PS3556.E42Z46 2012
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