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...Pulitzer board smiled kindly on New York City: the New York Times won two prizes, for a series on Star Wars and the music criticism of Donal Henahan, while one each went to the street-savvy Daily News columns of Jimmy Breslin and the Village Voice cartoons of Jules Feiffer. Knight-Ridder newspapers picked up seven of the 15 newspaper awards, a record for a single chain...
...Doonesbury had never been around, everyone would probably love Bloom County and think it was the best comic strip since Feiffer. Doonesbury led people to expect more out of a comic strip than just a half-hearted beginning of an understanding of the way we are. Yet if Doonesbury had never been around, neither would Bloom County--for Bloom County is clearly a child of the Doonesbury era. Politically and sometimes sentimentally accurate. Bloom County makes the best stab around at carrying the Doonesbury torch. But Bloom County too often comes dangerously close of the zone between, say. Donesbury...
...FEIFFER TREATS in "Vietnixon" saw the development of a dilemma that eventually hurt his cartoons, pushing him more towards politics and away from the people-and-politics intimate type of commentary that showed his distinctive touch. As Feiffer explains it, the increasing radicalism of his old crowd and of the left in general made him feel wishy-washy. But Nixon resolved the problem--he provided a simple political enemy that could unite all of the left. "He brought the revolution to its knees," Feiffer writes, "and released me into a world that I once more understood...
...people in the "Vietnixon" drawings become more depressed, more fearful of one another, more isolated. More notably, the drawings themselves become more political, as Feiffer abandons his psychological barbs to join the crowds heaping more topical abuse on Nixon. Chronicling "Happy Hooligan" Ford, "Jimmy the Cloud" Carter and "Movie America" Reagan, Feiffer proves to be a less adept political commentator than social observer. Despite occasional flashes, he falls victim to the overdone, obvious punchline. Bernard and Huey disappears, and with them Feiffer's magic...
Several major newspapers carried Feiffer daily thoughout his heyday in the 60s 70s. But now, although he is still visible: the cartoonist has essentially returned to his Greenwich Village roots in the more limited-audience Village Voice. For the mainstream left, he is largely replaced by his equivalent in modern-day sociopolitical commentary, Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury, Feiffer's America underlines this retreat to the outskirts, but still preserves the high points of a brilliant career...