New Releases by Jules FEIFFER

Jules FEIFFER is the author of Amazing Grapes (2024), Borda, George! (2021), Smart George (2020), Cousin Joseph (2019), The Ghost Script: A Graphic Novel (2018).

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Amazing Grapes

release date: Sep 24, 2024
Amazing Grapes
Pulitzer Prize–winning cartoonist Jules Feiffer brings the fantastical to life with his signature style in this zany, whimsical adventure about a family on a quest to find their mother and save another dimension. Curly and Perlie, brother and sister, find themselves transported to the Lost Dimension. Soon they are joined by big sister Shirley and their very special Mommy. Marvelous adventures await the whole family in that weird dimension. Come along and see for yourself!

Borda, George!

release date: Jan 01, 2021

Smart George

release date: Jun 02, 2020
Smart George
Everyone''s favorite dog is back in the much-anticipated follow-up to Bark, George from celebrated author-illustrator Jules Feiffer. When George''s mother asks her pup to add one plus one, two plus two, and three plus three, George would rather eat, go for a walk, and take a nap. But soon George finds himself in a colorful dream about...numbers! Can George count his way out? Featuring laugh-out-loud humor and expressive and bold illustrations from acclaimed author-illustrator and Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Jules Feiffer, this imaginative follow-up to Bark, George is the perfect read-aloud for children ready to learn their numbers.

Cousin Joseph

release date: Jan 09, 2019
Cousin Joseph
Deuxième volet de la trilogie époustouflante de Jules Feiffer. Préquel à "Kill My Mother" où nous découvrirons qui a tué le détective honnête et patriote Sam Hannigan !

The Ghost Script: A Graphic Novel

release date: Jul 31, 2018
The Ghost Script: A Graphic Novel
Never has the incomparable Jules Feiffer been more eerily prophetic than in this stunning finale to his best-selling Kill My Mother trilogy. Hollywood is haunted. 1953. Ghosts abound. In particular, the ghost of Detective Sam Hannigan—murdered in Bay City twenty-two years earlier by Addie Perl, the hired assassin who then bought a Hollywood nightclub with her blood money. Among the nightclub’s favored clientele is Sam’s widow, Elsie. Blinded by a Japanese bullet while on a USO tour in the South Pacific, Elsie has been reinvented into “Miss Know-It-All,” a Hollywood gossip columnist. But blind Elsie is haunted by the ghost of her husband, Sam, who asks her accusingly: “If Miss Know-It-All knows so much, why can’t she find Cousin Joseph, the man who had me killed?” Hollywood is haunted. Spooks abound. Agents Shoen and Kline, investigators for the House Un-American Activities Committee, manipulate the blacklisted, buxom, over-the-hill starlet-turned-hooker Lola Burns into working for them and naming the names she had once refused to betray. Hollywood is haunted. Communist screenwriters Oz McCay and Faye Bloom are noisily plotting, boozing, and laughing their way toward their impending disaster. Hollywood is haunted. As an inside joke, writer-director Annie Hannigan—Sam and Elsie’s daughter—comes up with the idea of a “Ghost Script” that may or may not exist but is rumored to expose the inside story of the Hollywood blacklist and the names of its undercover masterminds, most notably the reclusive philanthropist Lyman Murchison, a superpatriot with a dirty secret. Hollywood is haunted. Stumbling his way through this maze is private eye Archie Goldman, a tough-talking, nebbishy good guy who’s never been in a fight he didn’t lose. Archie’s single aim is to live up to the memory of the ghost who haunts him: Detective Sam Hannigan. Trail along with Archie into the middle of this muddle, as he tracks the arc of history and finds that it has rounded itself off into a circular firing squad. In this antic and brilliant assault on our past and present, Jules Feiffer shows us, once and for all, that if there’s one thing Americans hate, it’s learning from past mistakes. Every twenty years or so, a new generation must address new biases and injustices that are virtually identical to past biases and injustices. But who remembers? Exposing the tragically cyclical path of American history, Jules Feiffer pens the final installment to a noir masterpiece.

Kill my mother

release date: Jan 01, 2016

Kill My Mother: A Graphic Novel

release date: Aug 25, 2014
Kill My Mother: A Graphic Novel
Winner of the Eisner Prize for Best New Graphic Album Winner of the National Cartoonist Society Reuben Award for Best Graphic Novel Named one of the Best Books of the Year by Vanity Fair, Kirkus Reviews, and Library Journal A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection When three daunting dolls intersect with one hapless heroine and a hard-boiled private eye, deception, betrayal, and murder stalk every mean street in… Kill My Mother. Adding to a legendary career that includes a Pulitzer Prize, an Academy Award, Obie Awards, and Lifetime Achievement Awards from the National Cartoonist Society and the Writers Guild of America, Jules Feiffer now presents his first noir graphic novel. Kill My Mother is a loving homage to the pulp-inspired films and comic strips of his youth. Channeling Eisner''s The Spirit, along with the likes of Hammett, Chandler, Cain, John Huston, and Billy Wilder, and spiced with the deft humor for which Feiffer is renowned, Kill My Mother centers on five formidable women from two unrelated families, linked fatefully and fatally by a has-been, hard-drinking private detective. As our story begins, we meet Annie Hannigan, an out-of-control teenager, jitterbugging in the 1930s. Annie dreams of offing her mother, Elsie, whom she blames for abandoning her for a job soon after her husband, a cop, is shot and killed. Now, employed by her husband’s best friend—an over-the-hill and perpetually soused private eye—Elsie finds herself covering up his missteps as she is drawn into a case of a mysterious client, who leads her into a decade-long drama of deception and dual identities sprawling from the Depression era to World War II Hollywood and the jungles of the South Pacific. Along with three femme fatales, an obsessed daughter, and a loner heroine, Kill My Mother features a fighter turned tap dancer, a small-time thug who dreams of being a hit man, a name-dropping cab driver, a communist liquor store owner, and a hunky movie star with a mind-boggling secret. Culminating in a U.S.O. tour on a war-torn Pacific island, this disparate band of old enemies congregate to settle scores. In a drawing style derived from Steve Canyon and The Spirit, Feiffer combines his long-honed skills as cartoonist, playwright, and screenwriter to draw us into this seductively menacing world where streets are black with soot and rain, and base motives and betrayal are served on the rocks in bars unsafe to enter. Bluesy, fast-moving, and funny, Kill My Mother is a trip to Hammett-Chandler-Cain Land: a noir-graphic novel like the movies they don’t make anymore.

Rupert Can Dance

release date: Aug 05, 2014
Rupert Can Dance
Although Rupert liked watching his owner Mandy dance during the day, he secretly enjoyed dancing at night while Mandy slept.

Far Out Isn't Far Enough

release date: Jan 01, 2013

Backing Into Forward

release date: Apr 10, 2012
Backing Into Forward
The award-winning cartoonist, playwright, and author delivers a witty, illustrated rendition of his life, from his childhood as a wimpy kid in the Bronx to his legendary career in the arts.

Growing Every Which Way But Up

release date: Jan 01, 2011
Growing Every Which Way But Up
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art October 25, 2011 - January 22, 2012.

A A Room with a Zoo: Room with a Zoo

release date: Oct 02, 2007
A A Room with a Zoo: Room with a Zoo
/DIV DIVJulie wants a dog more than anything in the world, but her parents won''t let her have one until she’s old enough to walk it by herself. Julie does manage to collect some other pets while she waits, though: a sick cat, a hamster, a big, ugly fish, six smaller fish to keep the big fish company, a turtle, a strong-minded kitten, an unresponsive hermit crab, and a borrowed classroom rabbit that seems to be dying. All in one bedroom. Is enough ever enough for this critter connoisseur?

Harry, the Rat with Women

release date: Jan 01, 2007
Harry, the Rat with Women
Jules Feiffer''s first satirical novel, Harry, the Rat With Women, follows the humorous, existential rise and fall of a narcissistic lothario from influential high-society hanger-on to suicidal cipher. Feiffer''s brilliant modern fable comments less on the anomie of narcissism and more on the insecure desire of the world to find a charismatic messiah. Originally published in 1963, the book is a typically scathing tour de force, a wry, hilarious commentary on the American public''s seemingly endless love affair with rats - more relevant now than ever.

Passionella and Other Stories

release date: Jan 01, 2006
Passionella and Other Stories
Part of a projected 15 volume collection this fourth volume brings together all the cartoons, plays, screenplays, articles, essays and other writings of one of America''s greatest social satirists.

Feiffer, the Collected Works: Passionella and other stories

release date: Jan 01, 2006

A Bad Friend

release date: Jan 01, 2005
A Bad Friend
THE STORY: Set in Brooklyn during the 1950s, A BAD FRIEND brings us into the household of Shelly and Naomi Wallach, a middle-aged couple who are as fervently opposed to McCarthyism, anti-Semitism and exploitation of the working class as they are pa

White House Murder Case, The

release date: Jan 01, 2005

Dick and Jane

release date: Jan 01, 2005

The Daddy Mountain

release date: Jun 01, 2004
The Daddy Mountain
Before your very eyes, this little redhead is about to do something extremely daring. And scary. And she''ll show you-she''ll actually document, step-by-step-exactly how she does it. First, she takes her Daddy and makes him stand very still. Then, balancing herself on his shoe, she wraps her arms tightly around a leg and starts her perilous ascent to the summit. Thrills and chills, guaranteed. LOOK OUT BELOW!! JULES FEIFFER has won a number of prizes for his cartoons, plays, and screenplays, including the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. His books for children include The House Across the Street; By the Side of the Road; I''m Not Bobby; I Lost My Bear; and Meanwhile..He lives in New York City.

Daddy Mountain

release date: Jan 01, 2004

The House Across the Street

release date: Sep 01, 2003
The House Across the Street
The boy across the street has a fantastic life--he gets to sleep late, doesn''t go to school and has a pool in his bedroom? Can the boy who watches him have the same things in life? Full color.

The Great Comic Book Heroes

release date: Jan 01, 2003
The Great Comic Book Heroes
Jules Feiffer''s historic essay, available again in a compact and affordable size.

By the Side of the Road

release date: Apr 29, 2002
By the Side of the Road
When his father leaves him beside the road to teach him a lesson about misbehaving, Richard discovers that the roadside is not a bad place and takes up residence there.

I'm Not Bobby!: I'm Not Bobby

release date: Sep 10, 2001
I'm Not Bobby!: I'm Not Bobby
"Someone''s calling Bobby. I''m not Bobby. I''m a lion." Bobby''s parents are trying to get his attention, but Bobby is something else. For example, he''s a monster, an airplane, a dinosaur. Anything but Bobby. It''s not long before Bobby turns himself into an eagle soaring away with Mom, Dad, and every other grown-up in his life chasing after him. But after a daring escape into outer space, Bobby gets hungry and returns to Earth to claim his dinner. This hilarious escape story rings true to every child''s struggle for independence--not to mention a full tummy.

I Lost My Bear

release date: Aug 08, 2000
I Lost My Bear
It''s not under the bed, or on the chair, or beneath the couch, or behind the curtains. It''s GONE! What do you do when your favorite toy disappears, and you can''t find it where you left it? What if your family is NO help at all? A determined little detective heads up the search, and discovers more than she ever expected! 00-01 Young Reader''s Choice Award Program Masterlist

Feiffer Picture Book

release date: Aug 01, 2000

A Barrel of Laughs, A Vale of Tears

release date: Mar 07, 1998
A Barrel of Laughs, A Vale of Tears
‘Prince Roger sets out eagerly on a quest and finds a few adventures, a lot of friends, a damsel or two in distress (not!) and himself, in the end. A ‘carrier of joy’ whose mere presence causes everyone to laugh uncontrollably, Roger finds cruelty and kindness equally amusing, and expects his quest to be a lark. It’s anything but: As Roger passes through the Forever Forest, nearly starves at the Dastardly Divide, sees people at their worst in the Valley of Vengeance, and temporarily despairs in the Mountains of Malice, he sobers up, learns to care for others, becomes an expert peacemaker, does Good Deeds, and falls in love with Lady Sadie, who says what she thinks as she repeatedly saves his bacon.’—K. ‘Feiffer’s worldly-wise, confiding tone and sense of the absurd are highly congenial, and the drawings are a vintage Feiffer delight.’—Publishers Weekly. 100 Books for Reading and Sharing 1995 (NY Public Library)

Gom inhyungeul ireo beoryosseoyo

release date: Jan 01, 1998

The Man in the Ceiling

release date: Jun 01, 1995
The Man in the Ceiling
The story of a boy cartoonist who dreams of becoming a professional artist.
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