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

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

A brief QI article is now available. Ben and Mardy Grothe are acknowledged.

Full https://quoteinvestigator.medium.com/7495d5e4612a
Abbrev https://quoteinvestigator.com/2023/07/23/paranoia-normal/

Acknowledgement: Great thanks to Mardy Grothe whose inquiry led QI to
formulate this question and perform this exploration. Grothe knew the
text of the comic and was told that the quotation appeared circa 1968
in a Jules Feiffer comic strip in “The Village Voice”. Many thanks to
Ben Zimmer who precisely located the work in the January 30, 1969
issue of “The Village Voice”.

Garson

On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 7:57 PM ADSGarson O'Toole
<adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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:
> >
> > 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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