Reviews

Backing Into Forward: A Memoir by Jules Feiffer

dianametzger's review against another edition

3.0

This one took me awhile. I love his drawings and he had some really good political insights and creative process insights but otherwise this book felt all over the place. It wasn't until the end that he claimed it was a career memoir but he really picked and chose personal information wily nily to share in a way that felt confusing and wasn't sure what to make of him skimming over him leaving his first wife but then a focus on his siblings but really only in a short chapter. Like I said--all over the place and the way he talks about women when he's the father of daughters really irked me. I know he's of another generation but so much focus on how attractive or unattractive they were. I just wanted a lot more from this memoir I guess.

loonyboi's review against another edition

5.0

An excellent and witty memoir of a brilliant artist. There are a lot of gaps here, things for one reason or another he decided not to include. Which did strike me as strange while I was reading it. He addresses some of this in the afterwords. But there's so much great stuff in here that it doesn't matter that he never talks about his Academy Award winning short or the time he worked for Walt Disney.

Highly recommended, if you're into the subject matter.