![]() ![]() I found it a blow to my six-year-old individuality that the dialogue had to be read to me by my mother, especially when she was describing violence. ![]() I might be illiterate to this day if not for newspaper strips and comic books.ĭo you think you had what would now be diagnosed as dyslexia or a reading disability?Īll I know is that I was determined to know what these characters were saying. ![]() It was a boon to my parents that I was fascinated with comics because, to get the full value of comics, I had to learn how to read the words that went with the pictures. I had trouble learning how to read as a kid, and I didn't see much point in doing anything that gave me that much difficulty. Can you talk a bit about that moment in your life-what your ambitions were, what you loved then about comics? You started out as a wide-eyed fan of comics as a kid. ![]() We asked the ebullient eighty-six-year-old artist to chat about what’s behind his recent spate of activity. Feiffer’s own graphic novel “ Kill My Mother,” was published last year, and he’s currently working on the second book of what will be a noir trilogy. © 2015 Jules Feiffer / Courtesy the Adam Baumgold Gallery and Abrams BooksĪ show of Jules Feiffer’s art work opens tonight at the Adam Baumgold Gallery, and a book of his collected works, “Out of Line: The Art of Jules Feiffer,” is about to be released. ![]()
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