Synopses & Reviews
Jules Feiffer’s first graphic novel begins on the West Coast in the Depression years of the 1930s and ends in Hollywood and the South Pacific during World War II. Kill My Mother centers on five formidable women from two unrelated families, linked fatefully and fatally by a has-been, hard-drinking private detective. Feiffer unleashes a decade-long drama of deception, dual identities, mayhem, and murder, nonetheless laced with the deft humor characteristic of all his work from his groundbreaking Village Voice comic strip to Carnal Knowledge. Now in his eighties, the Oscar-winning cartoonist harkens back to early boyhood influences and reinvents himself, merging his crafts as cartoonist, playwright, and screenwriter. Feiffer draws from the adventure newspaper strips, detective fiction, and noir films of his youth, channeling Will Eisner’s The Spirit, Hammett, Chandler, Cain, John Huston, and Billy Wilder. Rendered in stark atmospheric images, Kill My Mother moves like the movies they don’t make anymore.
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"The book is full of the stock characters of the classic noir detective genre--there's the drunken loser of a private eye, a long-suffering but resourceful widow and her plucky teenage daughter (who also happens to hate her), prize fighters, tough guys chewing on cigars and, of course, a beautiful and mysterious woman. But the characterizations, relationships and, notably, the dialogue he's created--a Feiffer specialty--are anything but stock in what is shaping up ( got a sneak peak of the first 60 pages) as a lively and personal recreation of the noir genre in comics form." New York Times Book Review, front page review
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"The most astonishing plot twist in this hard-boiled musical melodrama chock-full of shifting identities and relationships involves seeing Jules Feiffer--the old master who reinvented the newspaper comic strip in the middle of the twentieth
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" stretches the long-form graphic novel into formidable textures of compact expression, daring to try things that film noir could only dream of." Art Spiegelman
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"Nobody moves like a Feiffer character, and no graphic novel has ever moved like . Feiffer uses the page like the multimedia genius he is: the camera storytelling of a filmmaker, the body language of stage actors, and the power of punch lines that define his people. Seven decades of pent-up love of noir pours out in these panels." Chris Ware
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"As an artist, Jules Feiffer is ever a phenomenon. The vital impulse sprints nonstop across every page. While honoring the tropes of old comics and of '40s film noir, Feiffer frequently breaks new ground, visually speaking, out of sheer inventive intelligence and enthusiasm. It is so great to see his figures dancing once again!" Paul Levitz
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"Multitalented Jules Feiffer has done it all. Winner of a Pulitzer Prize, an Academy Award,
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"Jules Feiffer's is a tribute to film noir and detective fiction....But isn't mere pastiche. The story is a thoughtful meditation on female identity and whether the not-so-simple art of murder can ever be defended as a moral necessity. It is a story about stories, the myths we have to create in order to keep putting one foot in front of the other... I know what I think: is terrific." Laura Lippman
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A literary event to be celebrated, the first graphic novel—an explosive, fast-paced thriller—by the legendary, Pulitzer Prize–winning American cartoonist.
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A Best Book of 2014 A Best Fiction Book of 2014 When three daunting dolls intersect with one hapless heroine and a hard-boiled private eye, deception, betrayal, and murder stalk every mean street in....
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Adding to a legendary career that includes a Pulitzer Prize, an Academy Award, Obie Awards, and Lifetime Achievement Awards from the National Cartoonist Society and the Writers Guild of America, Jules Feiffer now presents his first noir graphic novel. is a loving homage to the pulp-inspired films and comic strips of his youth. Channeling Eisner's , along with the likes of Hammett, Chandler, Cain, John Huston, and Billy Wilder, and spiced with the deft humor for which Feiffer is renowned, Kill My Mother centers on five formidable women from two unrelated families, linked fatefully and fatally by a has-been, hard-drinking private detective.
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Everyone knows a Feiffer illustration when they see one: His characters leap across the page, each line belying humor and psychological insight. Over Feifferandrsquo;s prolific 70-year career, his nimble and singular imagination has given us new perspectives as well as biting satires on politics, love, marriage, and religionandmdash;alternating with stories imbued with the playful anarchy of a child. Feifferandrsquo;s varied output includes childrenandrsquo;s books (The Phantom Tollbooth and Bark, George), plays (Little Murders), movies (Carnal Knowledge and Popeye), and comic strips (most notably in his Pulitzer Prizeandndash;winning Village Voice comic strip of 42 years). Out of Line: The Art of Jules Feiffer is the long-awaited illustrated retrospective of Fei fferandrsquo;s celebrated career, providing a revealing glimpse into his creative process and his role as Americaandrsquo;s foremost Renaissance man of the arts.and#160;
About the Author
Martha Fay is an essayist and the author of several works of nonfiction, including A Mortal Condition and walking guides to New York City, Rome, and Tuscany. She lives in Brooklyn and Italy. Jules Feiffer (b. 1929) is an award-winning writer, illustrator, screenwriter, playwright, childrenandrsquo;s book author, and cartoonist. He lives in East Hampton, New York.