A bookish side of Jules Feiffer

Jules Feiffer is a Pulitzer-Prize winning editorial cartoonist who has written over 35 books, plays and screenplays. His long running syndicated strip Feiffer appears in newspapers around the country and in 2004 he was inducted into the Comic Hall Fame. Here's a selection of his editorial cartoons that lean bookish: These and other editorial cartoons are available through R.Michelson Galleries.

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Oregon Art Center Rejects Dick and Jane

Talk about watching Dick and Jane run into the 21st century The piece is called "School Days" and it was submitted to the Emerald Art Center monthly members’ show by Linda Cunningham. Cunningham created the assemblage in response to the Sandy Hook school massacre. The center rejected the piece deeming it “too controversial” and “inappropriate.” Cunnigham said she: did this piece because of my feelings about Sandy Hook and all the little children and teachers who were killed there...Here we are, a year later, and nothing has been done to prevent gun violence,...I say, what’s controversial about not killing children? The National...

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Apple turns to ‘Dead Poets Society’ for latest iPad ad

[youtube]http://youtu.be/jiyIcz7wUH0[/youtube] The ad campaign is titled Your Verse and debuted during one of the NFL playoff games on Sunday. The audio is a voice over from the 1989 Peter Weir film, Dead Poets Society: We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry, because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering — these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love — these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, “O me, O life of the...

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