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If the pen is mightier than the
sword, is the cartoon mightier
than the cudgel?
Is satire stronger than ser
mon?
These are the questions whoee
answers are attempted today by
the Anti-Defamation League of
B’nai B’rith as it publishes "Feif
fer on Civil Rights," a collection
of the civil rights cartoons of
Jules Feiffer.
Feiffer, says Bayard Rustin in a
foreword to the book, “is the mas
ter of the comic epiphany, of that
dramatic, illuminating moment
which is both humorous and a
more effective moral comment
than any person one can imag
ine.”
The artist’s devastating critique
is aimed against prejudice of all
kinds, against anti-Semitism,
racism, all the negative “isms”
which have not yet been cut out
of our society.
In one panel, he has two sor
ority girls discuss what to do
about Jewish applicants. Anti-
Semitism is “passe,” they agree,
but “How do you handle it—now
that they’ve been judged ‘not
guilty’?” “We simply tell them
it doesn’t apply to us. After all,
we don’t take Catholics either.”
Feiffer was deeply involved in
the civil rights struggle before it
became fashionable. His cartoons
anticipated many current atti
tudes in the struggle — black
power and the backlash for
example—and he was a pioneer
in pointing out the complexities
—and hypocrisies—in some white
attitudes.
Feiffer’s ability to pierce pom
posity and scathingly reveal the
kernel of an attitude is demon
strated anew on each page of
panels. Many cartoons which
Feiffer devotees will recollect
from years ago seem to have new
meaning in the light of today’s
developments.
Both Rustin and Feiffer attack
the double standard as it exists
today in the minds of many—the
Southern racist, “Mr. Whitey
Backlash” (one of Feiffer’s fav
orite characters) and some lib
erals.
“On the one hand,” Rustin
writes, “the society is to go on
being as profoundly violent as it
is, proclaiming that it is still nec
essary to recognize force as the
supreme arbiter in international
life and power as the decisive
factor in the domestic economy.
And on the other hand, these
same people advise the Negro,
who has suffered the very worst
this nation has to give, to be
non-violent, i.e., better than any
one else.”
Neither the civil rights leader
—one of seven who recently came
out against the black power mil
itants in a newspaper advertise
ment—nor the cartoonist is an
advocate of violence, and Rustin
points out that Negroes, “this 10
percent minority of the American
population has created the most
effective non-violent mass move
ment since the time of Gandhi.”
Finally, Rustin finds Feiffer’s
success “a triumph of the white
liberal tradition.”
“As long as we can talk hon
estly as this book talks, there is
hope of an integrated movement
which will literally make a new
America,” he remarks.
While commercial publishers
expressed interest in putting out
a collection of Feiffer on the
civil rights theme the artist him
self insisted that the Anti-De
famation Ldague be the sole
publisher on a non-profit basis.
ADL, which has been engaged
for more than half a century in
the struggle for human rights and
equality of opportunity, has 28
regional offices throughout the
country. "Feiffer on Civil Rights"
is available at its national head
quarters, 315 Lexington Ave.,
New York City, or at any of its
regional offices for $1. Proceeds
will assist ADL’s many educa
tional programs.
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