Word: feiffer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Generally, Feiffer takes an optimistic view towards people. "They're apathetic about everything, but they're coming out of it. Everyone seems to have one prime desire in life, that's to cop out." He doesn't see himself as part of the beat or silent generation because, as he says, "I don't identify myself with any generation. I sometimes have enough trouble identifying myself...
...replying to the numerous queries put to him during his six hour visit, Feiffer relied on his spontaneous and quick reflexes which, when added to his other birdlike features, gave him a general appearance not unlike that of a chicken hawk on the make...
Inevitably, discussion drifted toward Feiffer's plans for his next book. He admitted that he hadn't given much thought to another book, but speculated that one might be published next year, "maybe it will be something about the Presidential elections." "My next project" he said, "will be a screen play. Someone came along one day and said, 'How'd you like to write a movie script?' I said, 'Gee, yeah.' So, this summer I'm going to try. It's something I've always wanted...
Time after time, Feiffer was asked to do caricatures of people ranging from Napoleon to Senator Kennedy or Fidel Castro. Most of the characters in his own cartoons, according to Feiffer, are not people he has really seen, but rather stereotypes "filtered through our general mass culture." "In order to point out the things you want to point out," he explained, you have to take an image and "distort it slightly" by running it through "a cockeyed mirror...
There is no doubt that Feiffer receives great satisfaction from his work. Even though he is only thirty, it took a long time for his work to gain any acceptance beyond the limited audience of the Village Voice, a weekly published in Greenwich Village to which Feiffer contributed cartoons before they were collected and published in his first book...