Items related to The Man in the Ceiling

Feiffer, Jules The Man in the Ceiling ISBN 13: 9780062050359

The Man in the Ceiling - Hardcover

 
9780062050359: The Man in the Ceiling
View all copies of this ISBN edition:
 
 
Although not very good at sports or in his schoolwork, Jimmy can draw and dreams of being a great cartoonist; that dream seems within reach when star athlete Charley Beemer suggests they create comics together.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

Review:
"The Pulitzer Prize-winner's splendidly energetic line drawings capture his characters' angst, anger and exuberance?. Wonderfully wise."--"School Library Journal""One of those crossbreeds?[a novel for children and adults], sharing a genre with such illustrious neighbors as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and The Little Prince."--"New York Times""Wickedly funny."--"Booklist"
About the Author:
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 Man in the Ceiling, A Barrel of Laughs, A Vale of Tears, I Lost My Bear, Bark, George, and Meanwhile... He lives in New York City. In His Own Words...

"I have been writing and drawing comic strips all illy life, first as a six-year-old, when I'd try to draw like my heroes: Alex Raymond, who did Flash Gordon, E. C. Segar, who did Popeye, Milton Caniff, who did Terry and the Pirates. The newspaper strip back in the I 1940s was a glorious thing to behold. Sunday pages were full-sized and Colored broadsheets that created a universe that could swallow a boy whole.

"I was desperate to be a cartoonist. One of my heroes was Will Eisner, who did a weekly comic book supplement to the Sunday comics. One day I walked into his office and showed him my samples. He said they were lousy, but lie hired me anyway. And I began my apprenticeship.

"Later I was drafted Out of Eisner's office into tile Korean War. Militarism, regimentation, and mindless authority combined to squeeze the boy cartoonist Out Of me and bring out the rebel. There was no format at the time to fit [he work I raged and screamed to do, so I had to invent one. Cartoon satire that commented on the Lin military the Bomb, the Cold War, the hypocrisy of grownLIPS, the mating habits of urban Young men and women, these were my subjects. After four years of trying to break into print and getting nowhere, the Village Voice, the first alternative newspaper, offered to publish me. Only one catch: They couldn't Pay me. What (lid I care?

"My weekly satirical strip, Sick Sick Sick, later renamed Feiffer started appearing in late 1956. Two years later, Sick Sick Sick came out in book form and became a bestseller. The following years saw a string of cartoon collections, syndication, stage and screen adaptations of the cartoon. One, Munro, won an Academy Award.

"This was heady stuff, taking me miles beyond my boyhood dreams. The only thing that got in the way of my enjoying it was the real world. The Cuban missile crisis, the assassination of President Kennedy, the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights revolution. The country was coining unglued and my weekly cartoons didn't seem to be an adequate way of handling it. So I started writing plays: Little Murders, The White House Murder Case, Carnal Knowledge, Grownups. All the themes of my comic strips expanded theatrically and later, cinematically to give me the time and space I needed to explain the times to myself and to my audience.

"I grew older. I had a family, and late in life, a very young family. I started thinking, as old guys will, about what I wanted these children to read, to learn. I read them E.B. White and Beverly Cleary and Roald Dahl, and, one day, I thought, I ley, I can do this."

"Writing for young readers connects me profess sionally to) a part of myself that I didn't know how to let out until I was sixty: that kid who lived a life of innocence, mixed with confusion and consternation, disappointment and dopey humor. And who drew comic strips and needed friends--and found them--in cartoons and children's books that told him what the grown-ups in his life had left out. That's what reading (lid for me when I was a kid. Now, I try to return the favor."

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Shipping: £ 9.11
From U.S.A. to United Kingdom

Destination, rates & speeds

Add to Basket

Other Popular Editions of the Same Title

9780062059079: The Man in the Ceiling (Michael Di Capua Books)

Featured Edition

ISBN 10:  ISBN 13:  9780062059079
Publisher: Collins, 1995
Softcover

  • 9780590262392: The Man in the Ceiling

    Softcover

  • 9780780759152: The Man in the Ceiling (Michael Di Capua Books)

    Hardcover

  • 9780606078351: The Man in the Ceiling

    Demco ..., 1995
    Softcover

Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace

Stock Image

Jules Feiffer, Jules Feiffer (Illustrator)
Published by HarperCollins (1993)
ISBN 10: 0062050354 ISBN 13: 9780062050359
New Hardcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
Ergodebooks
(Houston, TX, U.S.A.)

Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Feiffer, Jules (illustrator). Seller Inventory # DADAX0062050354

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
£ 30.24
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: £ 9.11
From U.S.A. to United Kingdom
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Feiffer, Jules
Published by HarperCollins (1993)
ISBN 10: 0062050354 ISBN 13: 9780062050359
New Hardcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
GoldenWavesOfBooks
(Fayetteville, TX, U.S.A.)

Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Feiffer, Jules (illustrator). New. Fast Shipping and good customer service. Seller Inventory # Holz_New_0062050354

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
£ 18.01
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: £ 22.19
From U.S.A. to United Kingdom
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Feiffer, Jules
Published by HarperCollins (1993)
ISBN 10: 0062050354 ISBN 13: 9780062050359
New Hardcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
GoldBooks
(Austin, TX, U.S.A.)

Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Feiffer, Jules (illustrator). New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed. Seller Inventory # think0062050354

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
£ 16.33
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: £ 24.57
From U.S.A. to United Kingdom
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Feiffer, Jules
Published by HarperCollins (1993)
ISBN 10: 0062050354 ISBN 13: 9780062050359
New Hardcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
GF Books, Inc.
(Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.)

Book Description Condition: New. Feiffer, Jules (illustrator). Book is in NEW condition. Seller Inventory # 0062050354-2-1

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
£ 31.01
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: £ 11.89
From U.S.A. to United Kingdom
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Feiffer, Jules
Published by HarperCollins (1993)
ISBN 10: 0062050354 ISBN 13: 9780062050359
New Hardcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
Book Deals
(Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.)

Book Description Condition: New. Feiffer, Jules (illustrator). New! This book is in the same immaculate condition as when it was published. Seller Inventory # 353-0062050354-new

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
£ 31.01
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: £ 11.89
From U.S.A. to United Kingdom
Destination, rates & speeds
Seller Image

Feiffer, Jules
Published by HarperCollins (1993)
ISBN 10: 0062050354 ISBN 13: 9780062050359
New Hardcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
InventoryMasters
(Nokomis, IL, U.S.A.)

Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Feiffer, Jules (illustrator). Item is New Stock or New/Old Stock from acquired bookstore inventories. Seller Inventory # hb-book-novel-1869

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
£ 22.03
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: £ 21
From U.S.A. to United Kingdom
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Feiffer, Jules
Published by HarperCollins (1993)
ISBN 10: 0062050354 ISBN 13: 9780062050359
New Hardcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
Front Cover Books
(Denver, CO, U.S.A.)

Book Description Condition: new. Feiffer, Jules (illustrator). Seller Inventory # FrontCover0062050354

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
£ 23.34
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: £ 24.17
From U.S.A. to United Kingdom
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Feiffer, Jules
ISBN 10: 0062050354 ISBN 13: 9780062050359
New Hardcover First Edition Quantity: 1
Seller:
KULTURAs books
(Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.)

Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Illustrated by Jules Feiffer (illustrator). Stated First Edition. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 185 pages. Seller Inventory # 3114

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
£ 20
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: £ 27.74
From U.S.A. to United Kingdom
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Feiffer, Jules; Feiffer, Jules [Illustrator]
Published by HarperCollins (1993)
ISBN 10: 0062050354 ISBN 13: 9780062050359
New Hardcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
GridFreed
(North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.)

Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Feiffer, Jules (illustrator). In shrink wrap. Seller Inventory # 50-17736

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
£ 19.01
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: £ 34.87
From U.S.A. to United Kingdom
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Feiffer, Jules
Published by HarperCollins (1993)
ISBN 10: 0062050354 ISBN 13: 9780062050359
New Hardcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
Wizard Books
(Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.)

Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Feiffer, Jules (illustrator). New. Seller Inventory # Wizard0062050354

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
£ 46.05
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: £ 24.17
From U.S.A. to United Kingdom
Destination, rates & speeds

There are more copies of this book

View all search results for this book