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...BOBBY! By Jules Feiffer. $15.95 Most people know Jules Feiffer as a counterculture cartoonist, but he has become a subversive children's author too. Feiffer's gift, admirably displayed in his seventh kids' book, is that he assumes a pint-size view of life. "I'm Not Bobby!" celebrates from the kid's perspective one of the most annoying phases of childhood for parents, the refusal to come when summoned. Bobby will not respond because he's foraging on the frontier of his independence. Feiffer's fluid drawings bring his raw dreams to life. This...
More than 200 people filled the Carpenter Center lecture hall last night to listen to Pulitzer Prize-winning author and cartoonist Art Spiegelman talk about the importance of comics as more than just children’s entertainment...
Comparative Literature Professor Susan R. Suleiman, who teaches about Spiegelman’s work in Comparative Literature 165, “The Holocaust and Problems of Representation,” introduced the cartoonist to the audience...
...newspaper print. One page has just Charlie Brown's head in extreme close-up, the better to see the attack and fade of Schulz's elegantly simple penwork. So here's my mea culpa for the "crudely drawn" comment. The book makes it clear that Schulz was a cartoonist's cartoonist. His dedication and natural talent for the daily gag strip format has no equal...
...DIED. HERBERT BLOCK, 91, four-time Pulitzer prizewinning editorial cartoonist; in Washington, D.C. Creating his works under the pen name Herblock, he made a sport of razing leading political figures, and in 1994, U.S. President Bill Clinton awarded him the Medal of Freedom?America's highest civilian honor. DIED. EDDIE FUTCH, 90, a boxing Hall of Famer who trained 20 world champions, including Larry Holmes, Joe Frazier, Riddick Bowe, Michael Spinks and Trevor Berbick; in Las Vegas. Fighting legend and former Golden Gloves lightweight champion, Futch won attention when he threw in the towel for Smokin...