Jules Feiffer
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And I did, and I was just as suspicious of Playboy as everybody was then and is to this day. And I found that Hefner was easily the most sensitive cartoon editor I've ever had anything to do with,
And all of his suggestions, and he would make many, I've never seen anybody deal with a cartoon with such meticulous care and concern, possibly due to the fact that he had begun as a cartoonist, was an amateur cartoonist, had first wanted to be one. In any case, he would send back my roughs with two, three-page single-spaced type letters making all sorts of suggestions.
And all of his suggestions, and he would make many, I've never seen anybody deal with a cartoon with such meticulous care and concern, possibly due to the fact that he had begun as a cartoonist, was an amateur cartoonist, had first wanted to be one. In any case, he would send back my roughs with two, three-page single-spaced type letters making all sorts of suggestions.
And all of his suggestions, and he would make many, I've never seen anybody deal with a cartoon with such meticulous care and concern, possibly due to the fact that he had begun as a cartoonist, was an amateur cartoonist, had first wanted to be one. In any case, he would send back my roughs with two, three-page single-spaced type letters making all sorts of suggestions.
And often they were very, very good. Sometimes they were good and bad. Sometimes they were just bad. And whenever we disagreed, he said, okay, run it your way. There was never any problem between us. He never pulled any rank. There was never any tension. I mean he was always the most affable person. colleague to work with.
And often they were very, very good. Sometimes they were good and bad. Sometimes they were just bad. And whenever we disagreed, he said, okay, run it your way. There was never any problem between us. He never pulled any rank. There was never any tension. I mean he was always the most affable person. colleague to work with.
And often they were very, very good. Sometimes they were good and bad. Sometimes they were just bad. And whenever we disagreed, he said, okay, run it your way. There was never any problem between us. He never pulled any rank. There was never any tension. I mean he was always the most affable person. colleague to work with.
And only years later, when I got into the theater and met people who were also just as easily to work with, did I meet Ezekiel, certainly not in publishing.
And only years later, when I got into the theater and met people who were also just as easily to work with, did I meet Ezekiel, certainly not in publishing.
And only years later, when I got into the theater and met people who were also just as easily to work with, did I meet Ezekiel, certainly not in publishing.
Well, I was talking about how I had difficulty drawing Kennedy because he was so handsome. He was just a conventionally handsome man, it seemed to me. After three years in office, that problem was cured for me as a caricaturist because his face heavied, he got jowls. Now, some of that... It may have been the cortisone.
Well, I was talking about how I had difficulty drawing Kennedy because he was so handsome. He was just a conventionally handsome man, it seemed to me. After three years in office, that problem was cured for me as a caricaturist because his face heavied, he got jowls. Now, some of that... It may have been the cortisone.
Well, I was talking about how I had difficulty drawing Kennedy because he was so handsome. He was just a conventionally handsome man, it seemed to me. After three years in office, that problem was cured for me as a caricaturist because his face heavied, he got jowls. Now, some of that... It may have been the cortisone.
He had Addison's disease, I think, and he was on this drug which does thicken your features and heavy it up and made him no less striking looking. It just made him easier for my pen.
He had Addison's disease, I think, and he was on this drug which does thicken your features and heavy it up and made him no less striking looking. It just made him easier for my pen.
He had Addison's disease, I think, and he was on this drug which does thicken your features and heavy it up and made him no less striking looking. It just made him easier for my pen.
Not in the beginning because I liked him. Lyndon Johnson was the only president in all the time I've been doing cartoons who I was actually very fond of. in his first nine months in office after he succeeded Kennedy and got through an unprecedented amount of social legislation, certainly unprecedented since the first New Deal days.
Not in the beginning because I liked him. Lyndon Johnson was the only president in all the time I've been doing cartoons who I was actually very fond of. in his first nine months in office after he succeeded Kennedy and got through an unprecedented amount of social legislation, certainly unprecedented since the first New Deal days.
Not in the beginning because I liked him. Lyndon Johnson was the only president in all the time I've been doing cartoons who I was actually very fond of. in his first nine months in office after he succeeded Kennedy and got through an unprecedented amount of social legislation, certainly unprecedented since the first New Deal days.
And I thought Kennedy was style without substance, and I thought Johnson was substance without style, and I much preferred him to Kennedy. I thought he was wonderful. And I had a great deal of trouble arriving at a caricature for a man who