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...first nights in their tuxedos and evening dresses, but these are duded-up dinosaurs; today's theater opening is the latest in a series of wakes. At one of these poignant occasions, filmed for Susan W. Dreyfoos' vivacious 1998 documentary "The Line King: Al Hirschfeld," fellow cartoonist Jules Feiffer rightly opined, "The only glamour left in the theater is what Al brings to it. And he is to what he does what Astaire was to what he did. Al has the same effortlessness, the same grace, the same wit, and that lighter-than-air quality." True enough. Hirschfeld put motion...
...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...
...alienation from himself seems a bit lacking in silliness for a kids book. Essayist David Sedaris' "Pretty Ugly," drawn by Ian Falconer, about a monster girl who makes a horribly cute face and gets stuck that way, hits a more child-like tone. Other contributors include Spiegelman himself, Jules Feiffer, Barbara McClintock and Kim Deitch on the secret life of cats...
...Francoise Mouly) anthology, "Little Lit: Strange Stories for Strange Kids." This hardcover follows the formula of last year's "Little Lit," a collection of off-kilter kids comix created by noted authors with and without comix experience. The new line-up includes work by Charles Burns, Maurice Sendak, Jules Feiffer, Paul Auster and David Sedaris...
DESMOND PFEIFFER Stupid series mugs Lincoln, mocks slavery. Pronounced "Puh-feiffer," as in "Puh-thetic...