Childhood was the act of being a CIA agent in enemy territory, waiting to get back home. “I faked my way through school and the approval of family. Feiffer is now working on an unabashed memoir of growing up, so he really warmed up to that theme: “School impossibly difficult on every level, and expectations from grown-ups were beyond what I could meet, but something I could fake and faked all the time,” Jules says. I didn’t do it in school, so why should I do it as a grown-up? I wanted it to be my reminiscences of comic books, and since I was there from the beginning in 1938, I was nine when Superman came out.” The interview also spends significant time on Feiffer's "semiautobiographical novel" for young readers, The Man in the Ceiling. “We worked it out, and I told him from the beginning that I didn’t want to make it a work of scholarship, because I didn’t do homework. “He called me up one day and said ‘I want to do a book called The Great Comic Book Heroes, and I can’t think of anyone else but you to write it. “Doctorow was the senior editor at Dial Press, and we were friends,” Jules remembers. My favorite detail of GraphicNYC's interview with author, playwright, and cartoonist Jules Feiffer is the revelation of who was responsible for his pioneering history of superhero comics: future National Book Award-winning novelist E.
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