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By Jules Feiffer
In 1956, a relatively unknown cartoonist by the name of Jules Feiffer started contributing a strip to the only alternative weekly published in the US, a small radical newspaper called The Village Voice. It was the first time the American public had been subjected to a weekly dose of comics that so uncompromisingly and wittily confronted individuals' private fears and society's public transgressions. Explainers is the first of four volumes collecting Feiffer's entire run of weekly strips from The Village Voice. This edition contains approximately 500 strips originally published between 1956 and 1966 in a gigantic landscape hardcover format.

The modern, non-editorial-page cartoon of social and political commentary was pretty much invented by Jules Feiffer.

A satirical masterpiece.--Roger Sabin

One of the most original social and political commentators in America.--Tom Clavin

[Feiffer] ranks as one of the five most important and influential cartoonists in the latter half of the 20th century.--Rob Clough

A veritable Bible of middle class American dysfunction...Feiffer reveals the depths of his subject not only through the dialogues--which are filled with psychological, social and politic depths that few cartoonists have ever plumbed--but also through an amazing skill to capture the body language so crucial to human communication...a real masterpiece worth delving into.--John E. Mitchell

A welcome reintroduction--or introduction, for the uninitiated--to a great cartoonist who boldly bent his medium to adult purposes long before it was commonplace to do so.--David Kamp

His genius is in bringing larger-than-life societal trends down to the human level. Most characters serve as symbols for something larger, but they never feel anything less than human.--Mason Adams

Almost always in the form of near-theatrical monologues or dialogues, "Feiffer" blew poison darts at Cold War-era politics, sexual mores and America's helpless flailing at the idea of normalcy.--Douglas Wolk

One of--if not--the first of the early writer/artists to emerge from the comic book ghetto into the literary/art world.--Will Eisner, creator of The Spirit