Comic Quotes by Jules Feiffer

9 Comic quotes by Jules Feiffer

Jules Feiffer’s brief excerpts showcase his satirical edge, turning everyday moments into witty commentary.

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When I am working a book, I go through my library and take a look through some of the great cartoonists of…

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Cartoons were very conservative. The country was very conservative. Although the liberals were allegedly in charge for a long time, there was…

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In the Depression, besides everybody being poor, our entertainment was much more primitive and innocent. The comic strip, which I so venerated,…

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I'm not sure about that role any longer. The role used to be to mix things up and I think to a…

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I don't know how comic artists feed their families, if they do. But it's a fascinating form and so I think that…

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I seemed to have instinctually a strong idea of how the strip had to be written from the beginning. That changed too,…

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My success was the shock of recognition, probably, rather than the quality of the work. I mean, the quality may have been…

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I've been around a long time and I've found that these forms, whether it's the cartoon, or whether it's a play, or…

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There's the excitement of adding color, which I didn't know anything about until 1997 or so, when I did my first picture…

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I was doing cartoons and mocking white liberals, mocking the attitude of government who said to go slow, while intending to do absolutely nothing…

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Remember when you were a kid and the boys didn't like the girls? Only sissies liked girls? What I'm trying to tell you is…

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I didn't have a job. Employers were afraid of losing their reputations. I didn't have a reputation. I had zilch. So, I had the…

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I come out of a Cold War sensibility, a Cold War mentality, and during those Cold War years, I used to know, I thought,…

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I seemed to have instinctually a strong idea of how the strip had to be written from the beginning. That changed too, but it…

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That was exciting to be able to comment on civil rights. I mean, the civil rights movement that young people don't know about today,…

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The artwork had very little to do with the thought process, and the writing too, for that matter. What happens, happens, and it happens…

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I'm not electronically geared at all; I'm really a 19th century cartoonist. I have a 15-year-old daughter, and what she's attracted to is of…

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I found it was my good fortune to somehow be able to work in these forms that I loved when I was a kid.…

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