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Multitalented Jules Feiffer has done it all. Winner of a Pulitzer Prize, an Academy Award, an Obie Award, among many others, he's now turned his spectacular talent to a graphic novel. Nobody writes like Jules! Nobody draws like Jules! Nobody in their right mind would miss reading this monumental milestone of his incredible career!--Stan Lee As an artist, Jules Feiffer is ever a phenomenon. The vital impulse sprints nonstop across every page. While honoring the tropes of old comics and of '40s film noir, Feiffer frequently breaks new ground, visually speaking, out of sheer inventive intelligence and enthusiasm. It is so great to see his figures dancing once again!--David Small Nobody moves like a Feiffer character, and no graphic novel has ever moved like Kill My Mother. Feiffer uses the page like the multimedia genius he is: the camera storytelling of a filmmaker, the body language of stage actors, and the power of punch lines that define his people. Seven decades of pent-up love of noir pours out in these panels.--Paul Levitz The book is full of the stock characters of the classic noir detective genre--there's the drunken loser of a private eye, a long-suffering but resourceful widow and her plucky teenage daughter (who also happens to hate her), prize fighters, tough guys chewing on cigars and, of course, a beautiful and mysterious woman. But the characterizations, relationships and, notably, the dialogue he's created--a Feiffer specialty--are anything but stock in what is shaping up (PW got a sneak peak of the first 60 pages) as a lively and personal recreation of the noir genre in comics form.--Calvin Reid ""Publishers Weekly"" The most astonishing plot twist in this hard-boiled musical melodrama chock-full of shifting identities and relationships involves seeing Jules Feiffer--the old master who reinvented the newspaper comic strip in the middle of the twentieth century--now reinvents himself as an ambitious young graphic novelist!--Art Spiegelman Kill My Mother stretches the long-form graphic novel into formidable textures of compact expression, daring to try things that film noir could only dream of.--Chris Ware

Multitalented Jules Feiffer has done it all. Winner of a Pulitzer Prize, an Academy Award, an Obie Award, among many others, he s now turned his spectacular talent to a graphic novel. Nobody writes like Jules! Nobody draws like Jules! Nobody in theirright mind would miss reading this monumental milestone of his incredible career!--Stan Lee

Multitalented Jules Feiffer has done it all. Winner of a Pulitzer Prize, an Academy Award, an Obie Award, among many others, he s now turned his spectacular talent to a graphic novel. Nobody writes like Jules! Nobody draws like Jules! Nobody in theirright mind would miss reading this monumental milestone of his incredible career! --Stan Lee

The book is full of the stock characters of the classic noir detective genre there s the drunken loser of a private eye, a long-suffering but resourceful widow and her plucky teenage daughter (who also happens to hate her), prize fighters, tough guys chewing on cigars and, of course, a beautiful and mysterious woman. But the characterizations, relationships and, notably, the dialogue he s created a Feiffer specialty are anything but stock in what is shaping up (PW got a sneak peak of the first 60 pages) as a lively and personal recreation of the noir genre in comics form. --Calvin Reid The most astonishing plot twist in this hard-boiled musical melodrama chock-full of shifting identities and relationships involves seeing Jules Feiffer the old master who reinvented the newspaper comic strip in the middle of the twentieth century now reinvents himself as an ambitious young graphic novelist! --Art Spiegelman Nobody moves like a Feiffer character, and no graphic novel has ever moved like Kill My Mother. Feiffer uses the page like the multimedia genius he is: the camera storytelling of a filmmaker, the body language of stage actors, and the power of punch lines that define his people. Seven decades of pent-up love of noir pours out in these panels. --Paul Levitz Kill My Mother stretches the long-form graphic novel into formidable textures of compact expression, daring to try things that film noir could only dream of. --Chris Ware As an artist, Jules Feiffer is ever a phenomenon. The vital impulse sprints nonstop across every page. While honoring the tropes of old comics and of '40s film noir, Feiffer frequently breaks new ground, visually speaking, out of sheer inventive intelligence and enthusiasm. It is so great to see his figures dancing once again!--David Small Multitalented Jules Feiffer has done it all. Winner of a Pulitzer Prize, an Academy Award, an Obie Award, among many others, he's now turned his spectacular talent to a graphic novel. Nobody writes like Jules! Nobody draws like Jules! Nobody in their right mind would miss reading this monumental milestone of his incredible career!--Stan Lee Kill My Mother stretches the long-form graphic novel into formidable textures of compact expression, daring to try things that film noir could only dream of. --Chris Ware

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Jules Feiffer (1929-2025) was a cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter, children's book author and illustrator, and member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He taught a humor-writing class at Stony Brook Southampton College and lived in East Hampton, New York.

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