The Adventures of Phoebe Zeit-Geist
"The Adventures of Phoebe Zeit-Geist" was an American
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Plot
The comic detailed the adventures of
Nazis, Chinese foot fetishists, and lesbian
assassins.
Impact
Doonesbury comic-strip creator Garry Trudeau cited the strip as an early inspiration, saying, "[A] very heavy influence was a serial in the Sixties called 'Phoebe Zeitgeist' ... It was an absolutely brilliant, deadpan send-up of adventure comics, but with a very edgy modernist kind of approach. To this day, I hold virtually every panel in my brain. It's very hard not to steal from it."[1]
References
- ^ Kidd, Chip (October 27, 2010). "Doonesbury Turns 40: Garry Trudeau reflects on his days at Yale, his Pulitzer Prize-winning comic, and how he envisions it ending". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on December 23, 2016. Retrieved May 27, 2017.