Jules Feiffer on writing

 (This post is available in audio format here on Youtube.)

"Writing, I explained, was mainly an attempt to out-argue one's past; to present events in such a light that battles lost in life were either won on paper or held to a draw."

--Jules Feiffer 

Jules left us in January. Cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter. Illustrator of The Phantom Tollbooth. Winner of the Pulitzer prize for editorial cartooning. Inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame.

Favorites:

Little Murders

Feiffer's America

Carnal Knowledge

Plus a bonus quote:

“When I was young, I was much more— I used to be angry all the time. And for many years, I was in a rage, and I exhibited a lot of that rage on the paper, and it worked. But somewhere along the way—I don’t know how to tell you this—I got happy, I can’t do that rage thing so much anymore.”