[Ads-l] Jules Feiffer cartoon and Google Newspaper Archive

[Ben Zimmer]

I managed to find the Feiffer cartoon in the Jan. 30, 1969 issue of the
Village Voice (p. 4). Fortunately, it's an issue on Google News Archive.

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=KEtq3P1Vf8oC&dat=19690130&printsec=frontpage&hl=en

--Ben

On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 6:44 PM ADSGarson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The topic of the Google Newspaper archive was raised on this mailing
> list, and I just encountered a relevant problem.
>
> The following quotation has been ascribed to Jules Feiffer who
> published cartoons in the Village Voice.
>
> [Begin quotation]
> I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively
> active, constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia. Turns
> out I'm normal.
> [End quotation]
>
> I received an inquiry to trace the quotation above, and I knew that
> many issues of the Village Voice were available in the Google
> Newspaper Archive. But my searches were unsuccessful. The Google Books
> database and the Internet Archive also have collections of Feiffer
> cartoons, but my searches were again unsuccessful.
>
> The crucial problem seems to be that Feiffer employed a distinctive
> scrawl when he wrote the dialogue / thoughts / comments / captions of
> his comics. The optical character recognition algorithms are currently
> unable to extract the text he wrote to make it searchable.
>
> If you have any suggestions for performing the task of searching Jules
> Feiffer’s cartoons. Please contact me on or off the list.
>
> Garson
>
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