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Jules Feiffer Satirical political comic strips on Vietnam, Watergate, Black Power, Attica, Angela Davis, and Richard Nixon contained in a large scrapbook. Many clipped newspaper strips carrying pencil dates from the late 1960s into 1973. The selections concentrate on public language under pressure: a Vietnam policy strip warns that China, African, and Latin American policy will follow if public opinion is not contained; a 1968 election strip reduces choice to "Richard Nixon or Lyndon Johnson"; and a protest strip moves from "Free Huey" to "Free Angela," "Free Attica," "Free all political prisoners," and "All power to the people" before ending with a police figure. Feiffer's satirical method, built from anxious monologues, repeated faces, and abrupt moral reversals, fits the scrapbook's movement from Johnson era war politics to Nixon, Spiro Agnew, Judge Sirica, San Clemente, and Watergate tapes. The volume preserves Feiffer's newspaper circulation. Feiffer, Jules. Scrapbook of over 150 syndicated comic strip clippings. United States: Publishers-Hall Syndicate and other newspaper syndicates, circa 1966 to 1973. Large folio scrapbook measuring 14" x 12" x 1" with textured cream cover titled "Scrap Book," post binding, and numerous newspaper comic strips mounted to brown scrapbook leaves. Most clippings carry the printed masthead "Feiffer," copyright lines, and Publishers-Hall distribution statements; scattered pencil annotations date individual strips, including notations from 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, and 1973. Included Feiffer strips address the Vietnam War, the 1968 election, Czechoslovakia and Vietnam as paired accusations of "Russian invasion" and "American aggression," police authority as a religious sect devoted to "Law," "Order," "The Flag," and "Retribution," Dr. Benjamin Spock and child rearing recast through war protest, and the 1960s as a sequence in which public figures "got shot" or "got elected" beneath a quotation attributed to Spiro T. Agnew. Later pages include Feiffer strips on Nixon and Congress, San Clemente, censorship in film, student protest, Jane Fonda, gay liberation, women's liberation, Black Power, and Cambodia, with a small number of Pat Oliphant Nixon and Judge Sirica Watergate clippings and another newspaper comic strip mounted near the end. Feiffer's satire emerged from The Village Voice in the 1950s and entered mass newspaper syndication during the years when antiwar organizing, civil rights activism, student protest, second wave feminism, and Watergate forced political language into daily print culture. The scrapbook's concentration of dated clippings gives American history, journalism history, comics studies, and book history collections a reader assembled sequence of newspaper satire retaining the paper stock, cropping, paste marks, and handwritten dating absent from later anthology publication. Original post binding present; worn at the spine with many loose pages; scrapbook leaves toned and brittle; clippings with some paste staining but remain legible. Overall good condition. Reader assembled concentration of Feiffer's syndicated satire records how Vietnam, protest politics, family roles, and Watergate were clipped, dated, and kept in newspaper form.
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