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

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Wow! Fantastic, Ben. I can see the desired comic by Jules Feiffer on page 4.
Great job. I appreciate your help.
Garson

On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 7:50 PM Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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:
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> > 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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