My own feeling was that as long as I read children's books of my own choice to my child, I ought also to read a few that he picked off the stands. There were arguments going on about the possible bad influences of these publications. I liked The Spirit for what Feiffer calls Eisner's “expressionist touch.” We read some of Bob Kane's Batman and Robin too. In the later part of that period, we also read together some of Superman by Jerome Siegel and Joe Shuster, and The Spirit by Will Eisner. Most of them, as I remember, were the rhymed adventures of bug-people in a place called “Bugville.” The plots were mild, calling to my mind the adventures of the “Brownies” by Palmer Cox that I used to read in bound copies of St. Compiled, Introduced and Annotated by Jules Feiffer.īetween 19, I read quite a few comic books to our then-unlettered son.
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