I'm Not Electronically Geared At All; I'm Really A 19th Century Cartoonist. I Have A 15-year-old Daughter, And What She's Attracted To Is Of Course Ipod And This Pod And That, I Mean Stuff I Don't Even Begin To Know - I Never Learned How To Type For Christ's Sake! I Can't Get In Her Head And Find Out What She Would Do If She Had The Kind Of Talent I Had, I Don't Have A Clue. Every Generation Comes Up With Its Own Quirkiness And Its Own Culture Which Gets Its Inspiration From What's In The Air At That Time.

-Jules Feiffer

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I'm Not Electronically Geared At All; I'm

Jules Feiffer

I'm Not Electronically Geared At All; I'm Really A 19th Century Cartoonist. I Have A 15-year-old Daughter, And What She's Attracted To Is Of Course Ipod And This Pod And That, I Mean Stuff I Don't Even Begin To Know - I Never Learned How To Type For Christ's Sake! I Can't Get In Her Head And Find Out What She Would Do If She Had The Kind Of Talent I Had, I Don't Have A Clue. Every Generation Comes Up With Its Own Quirkiness And Its Own Culture Which Gets Its Inspiration From What's In The Air At That Time.

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Daughter

Inspiration

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Cartoons Were Very Conservative. The Country Was Very Conservative. Although The Liberals Were Allegedly In Charge For A Long Time, There Was A Very Acceptable Balance What People Would Talk About In Public. And I Wanted To Stretch Those And Move Further Out. And As The Civil Rights Movement Began, I Started Doing Cartoons On That And On Sit-ins And I Was, Along With Bill Mauldin, A Great Cartoonist Out Of World War Ii, Arguably One Of Two White Cartoonists Doing This Kind Of Work, Bill And Me.

Country

War

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