Biography
Jules Ralph Feiffer (born January 26, 1929) is an American cartoonist and author, who was considered the most widely read satirist in the country. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for editorial cartooning, and in 2004 he was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame. He wrote the animated short Munro, which won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1961. The Library of Congress has recognized his "remarkable legacy", from 1946 to the present, as a cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter, adult and children's book author, illustrator, and art instructor.When Feiffer was 17 (in the mid-1940s) he became assistant to cartoonist Will Eisner. There he helped Eisner write and illustrate his comic strips, including The Spirit. In 1956, he became a staff cartoonist at The Village Voice, where he produced the weekly comic strip titled Feiffer until 1997. His cartoons became nationally syndicated in 1959 and then appeared regularly in publications including the Los Angeles Times, the London Observer, The New Yorker, Playboy, Esquire, and The Nation. In 1997, he created the first op-ed page comic strip for the New York Times, which ran monthly until 2000.
He has written more than 35 books, plays and screenplays. His first of many collections of satirical cartoons, Sick, Sick, Sick, was published in 1958, and his first novel, Harry, the Rat With Women, in 1963. In 1965, he wrote The Great Comic Book Heroes, the first history of the comic-book superheroes of the late 1930s and early 1940s and a tribute to their creators. In 1979, Feiffer created his first graphic novel, Tantrum. By 1993, he began writing and illustrating books aimed at young readers, with several of them winning awards.
Feiffer began writing for the theater and film in 1961, with plays including Little Murders (1967), Feiffer's People (1969), and Knock Knock (1976). He wrote the screenplay for Carnal Knowledge (1971), directed by Mike Nichols, and Popeye (1980), directed by Robert Altman. He was recently given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Dramatist’s Guild.
He lives in upstate New York with his wife JZ Holden and their three cats, Mimi, Jackson and Dezzdemona. He is currently working on a visual memoir.
Filmography
all 23
Movies 17
Writer 10
TV Shows 6
self 6
Screenplay 1
Bernard and Huey (2018)
Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle (2013)
The Phantom Tollbooth: Beyond Expectations (2013)
Far Out Isn't Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story (2012)
Will Eisner: Portrait of a Sequential Artist (2007)
I Lost My Bear (2005)
The Fifties (1997)
Nichols and May: Take Two (1996)
I Want to Go Home (1989)
Plymptoons: The Complete Early Works of Bill Plympton (1989)
American Masters (1986)
Puss in Boots (1985)
Boomtown (1985)
Faerie Tale Theatre (1982)
Popeye (1980)
Mord i det hvite hus (1972)
Carnal Knowledge (1971)
Little Murders (1971)
Munro (1961)
ABC Close-Up! (1960)
Foofle's Train Ride (1959)
Another Day, Another Doormat (1959)
The Tale of a Dog (1959)
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Known ForWriting
GenderMale
Birthday1929-01-26 (95 years old)
Birth PlaceThe Bronx, United States of America
ChildrenHalley Feiffer
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
AwardsWill Eisner Hall of Fame, Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award, Inkpot Award, George Polk Award, Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning
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