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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Fantagraphics Books
Publication date September 11, 2006
Pages 180
Binding Hardcover
Edition Reprint
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9781560970972
ISBN-10 1560970979
Dimensions 1 by 8.75 by 6.75 in.
Weight 1.55 lbs.
Availability§ Publisher Out of Stock
Original list price $19.95
§As reported by publisher
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Summary
A collection of definitive works by the Pulitzer Prize and Academy Award-winning satirical cartoonist is comprised of graphic narratives from the late 1950s and early 1960s, including 'Excalibur and Rose,' 'The Lonely Machine,' and 'Harold Swerg.'
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Presenting a masterpiece from one of America's great satirists.

Jules Feiffer has had one of the most varied and illustrious careers of any 20th century cartoonist. For over 40 years he contributed strips to The Village Voice, and has long been a regular contributor to the London Observer and Playboy. An animated cartoon based on his story Munro received an Academy Award in 1961. In the '60s, he branched into theater, writing several plays now regarded as classics: Little Murders; Knock, Knock; The White House Murder Case; Elliot Loves; and The Grown-Ups, to name a few. Originally conceived for the stage, his Carnal Knowledge became one of the landmark films of the '70s. He has written two prose novels, Harry the Rat with Women and Ackroyd, as well as a cartoon novel, Tantrum. In the 1990s, Feiffer embarked on yet another career, this time as a children's book author. He has over a half-dozen to his credit, including modern classics like The Man and the Ceiling.

Passionella and Other Stories collects Feiffer's finest extended graphic narratives of the late '50s and early '60s. It opens in full-color with "Excalibur and Rose," the fable of a village comedian who embarks on a crusade in search of his serious side, which he finds in spades when he encounters his true love, the pathologically depressed Rose. The volume's centerpiece, "Passionella," a retelling of Cinderella set in modern Hollywood, concerns a chimney sweep whose fairy godmother transforms her into the "mysterious exotic bewitching temptress"and movie starPassionella. Other stories include "The Lonely Machine," an account of one man's attempt to find the perfect relationship through robot love, and "Harold Swerg," the predicament of the world's greatest athlete who'd rather stay at his mundane job than compete against others, despite his country's desperate pleas to enter the Olympics. Three more classic graphic tales and several entertaining one-act plays round out this handsomely designed hardcover edition. Full-color and black-and-white cartoons throughout

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Reprint edition from Fantagraphics Books (September 11, 2006)
9781560970972 | details & prices | 180 pages | 8.75 × 6.75 × 1.00 in. | 1.55 lbs | List price $19.95
About: A collection of definitive works by the Pulitzer Prize and Academy Award-winning satirical cartoonist is comprised of graphic narratives from the late 1950s and early 1960s, including 'Excalibur and Rose,' 'The Lonely Machine,' and 'Harold Swerg.

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