Description: Volume 2 of legendary children's book author (Harold and the Purple Crayon) Crockett Johnson's long-lost comic-strip masterpiece collects 5-year-old Barnaby Baxter and his Fairy Godfather J.J. O'Malley's 1944-1945 newspaper strip misadventures: designed by graphic novelist Daniel Clowes (Ghost World).
Brief description: Jules Feiffer (1929-2025) is a cartoonist, playwright, children's book author and illustrator, and member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He teaches a humor writing class at Stony Brook Southampton College and lives in Southampton, New York.
Review Quotes: I think, and I'm trying to talk calmly, that Barnaby and his friends and oppressors are the most important additions to American arts and letters in Lord knows how many years.--Dorothy Parker