If you are not able to communicate successfully between yourself and yourself, how are you supposed to make it with the strangers outside?
Jules FeifferThere's no rap against comics that isn't true. They were sexist, they were racist, you name it - and they kind of gloried in that.
Jules FeifferJesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?
Jules FeifferYou know with Obama being elected, we had a wonderful opportunity. I hope it's not blown, and we have forms of government that don't seem to be up to the level of the leaders who are around who will want to move this country in a proper direction. Where that goes and how that goes, I mean, we seem determined to not move ahead, to stay in the same place. And there are a lot of nuts out there as well.
Jules FeifferIn the Depression, besides everybody being poor, our entertainment was much more primitive and innocent. The comic strip, which I so venerated, was still a very new form. Movies had just become talkies. Radio had just gone coast to coast for the first time. Network radio had just begun when I was a kid. So all of these forms were more or less in their infancy, and feeling their oats. Comics were fresh and funny and nervy, and in a sense, defiant of the prevailing culture.
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