Jules Feiffer grew up in the Bronx, New York. He is a writer, cartoonist, playwright, illustrator, and screenwriter whose cartoon series, first entitled Sick Sick Sick and later called Feiffer, ran for forty-two years in the Village Voice. Feiffer is the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize and lifetime achievement awards from the National Cartoonist Society and the Writers Guild of America. He taught at the Yale School of Drama and at Southampton College. Since 2014, he has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
“Up in the sky! It’s a bird!
It’s a plane! It’s…Superman!”
Oh, he was a giant back then. And he may have been a touch innocent, even primitive, but he was unique. One of a kind. And he was like an…
Cover of Der groyser kundes: A zhurnal far humor, vitz un satire (July 12, 1912), with a cartoon by Lola (Leon Israel). Democratic candidate Woodrow Wilson is portrayed as Delilah, cutting off the…
Ángel Jacob Jesurún’s topographical map of Caracas, with its geometric grid, is the first map after Venezuela’s independence to be drawn and printed by a native of the city. After decades of war and…