
Backing Into Forward
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A gifted storyteller who has delighted readers and theater audiences for decades, Jules Feiffer now turns his talents to the tale of his own life.
Plagued by learning problems, a controlling mother, and a debilitating sense of fear, Feiffer embarked on his first cartoon apprenticeship at the age of seventeen, emboldened only by a passion for success and an aptitude for failure. He vividly recalls those transformative years working under the legendary Will Eisner, and later, after he was drafted into the army, his evolution from "smart-ass kid into an enraged satirist." Backing into Forward also traces Feiffer's love life, from a doomed hitchhiking trip to reclaim his high-school sweetheart to losing his virginity in Greenwich Village, and his road to marriage and fatherhood.
At the center of this journey is Feiffer's prolific creativity. In dazzling detail, he recounts the birth of his subversive graphic novella Munro, his entrée into New York's literary salons, collaborations with film greats Mike Nichols, Robert Altman, and Jack Nicholson, and other major turning points. Brimming with wry punch lines, slices of Americana, and pithy social commentary, Backing into Forward charts Feiffer's rise as an unlikely and incisive provocateur during the conformist fifties and the Vietnam and Civil Rights sixties and seventies.
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Part One - Gunslinger
- Chapter 1 - Boy Cartoonist
- Chapter 2 - Comics Caravan
- Chapter 3 - The Bar Mitzvah Hostage
- Photo Insert I
- Chapter 4 - A Jewish Mother Joke
- Chapter 5 - Danny
- Chapter 6 - Red Ed
- Chapter 7 - Idol
- Chapter 8 - Stomachache
- Chapter 9 - One Basket
- Chapter 10 - Ed
- Chapter 11 - Theater
- Chapter 12 - Fear
- Chapter 13 - Breakthrough
- Chapter 14 - Breakup
- Chapter 15 - Road Movie
- Chapter 16 - "Jules, What are you doing here?"
- Chapter 17 - I Ain't A-Gonna be Treated this a Way
- Chapter 18 - Joe
- Chapter 19 - The Secret Of My Success
- Or, Over the Cliff
- Chapter 20 - Madness
- Chapter 21 - SOS
- Chapter 22 - Camp Gorgon
- Chapter 23 - Pony
- Chapter 24 - Fifth Street
- Part Two - Famous
- Chapter 25 - The Village
- Chapter 26 - A Dance to Spring
- Chapter 27 - Hackwork
- Chapter 28 - The Voice
- Chapter 29 - Odets is Back!
- Chapter 30 - Lucking Into the Zeitgeist
- Chapter 31 - Our Gang
- Chapter 32 - Red Scare
- Chapter 33 - The Mating Dance
- Chapter 34 - Heckle and Jeckle Meet Mike and Elaine
- Chapter 35 - Spokesman
- Chapter 36 - Tedso
- Chapter 37 - Playboy at the Second City
- Chapter 38 - Process
- Chapter 39 - Sellout
- Chapter 40 - Herb
- Chapter 41 - Alex and Al
- Chapter 42 - Salon
- Chapter 43 - White Liberal
- Chapter 44 - The Warrior Liberal
- Chapter 45 - The Adjustment
- Chapter 46 - Hall Of Fame
- Chapter 47 - College Days
- Chapter 48 - Dave
- Chapter 49 - Birth Trauma
- Photo Insert II
- Chapter 50 - Death Trauma
- Part Three - Another Country
- Chapter 51 - Closet America
- Chapter 52 - The Assassination of Cary Grant
- Chapter 53 - Harry, The Rat
- Chapter 54 - Working
- Chapter 55 - Unmaking It
- Chapter 56 - Into Exile
- Chapter 57 - Yaddo
- Chapter 58 - What I did on my Summer Vacation
- Chapter 59 - First Mistake
- Chapter 60 - Flop
- Chapter 61 - Little Wonders
- Chapter 62 - Riot
- Chapter 63 - My Candidate
- Chapter 64 - The Comeback Kid
- Chapter 65 - Pro Bono Playwright
- Chapter 66 - The Jewish Mother Cabal
- Chapter 67 - No Sense Of Direction
- or, How to Get from Carnal Knowledge to Bark, George
- Chapter 68 - Alice
- Chapter 69 - Mimi
- Chapter 70 - Voiceless
- Chapter 71 - The Professor of I Don't Know Where I'm Going with This But Let's Find Out
- Chapter 72 - Bedtime for Memoir
- Chapter 73 - And in Conclusion
- Last Panels
- Acknowledgments
- A Note About the Author
- Copyright
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