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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Jules Feiffer’s New Medium

    Jules Feiffer has been a cartoonist for some 70 years. His comics appeared in the Village Voice for decades. He’s also written books, plays, screenplays and a memoir. Now, at age 85, Jules Feiffer has written his first graphic novel.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Sep 9, 2014 • 1 min read

    Jules Feiffer has been a cartoonist for some 70 years. His comics appeared in the Village Voice for decades. He’s also written books, plays, screenplays and a memoir. Now, at age 85, Jules Feiffer has written his first graphic novel. It’s a comic noir set in the 1930s and ‘40s, written in the style of the pulp novels and detective movies of the time.

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    5. 42:27Ray Rice Terminated
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      Madeleine Brand

      Host, 'Press Play'

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      Andrew Walsh

      Too Beautiful to Live

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      Christian Bordal

      Managing Producer, Greater LA

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      Matt Holzman

      Producer, 'The Document'

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    4 of 5
    Obama’s Immigration About-Face, Fall TV Diversity and Ray Rice
    1. 0:00Obama’s Immigration About-Face
    2. 9:37What’s in Store for Undocumented Kids?
    3. 16:01Diversity on Television
    4. 26:19Jules Feiffer’s New MediumYou’re reading this
    5. 42:27Ray Rice Terminated
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