Feiffer, Jules

Backing Into Forward: A Memoir

Nan A. Talese (Doubleday):
New York: 2010
First edition, Hardcover, New in dust jacket,
441 pp
Cover artwork by: Jules Feiffer

An autobiography. “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.”   #43783