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Sick, Sick, Sick
Jules Feiffer
1958
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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…
Bigdickus:Where’s he going? [shouting at an aide who has just exited] Where do you think you’re going?!Prostitutus:He thinks he’s going to baby-sit.Bigdickus:Babysitting? I sent him to kill her and he…
Ḥay ibn Yaqẓān, composed by the Muslim philosopher Abū Bakr ibn Tufayl al-Qaysi (1110–1185), relates the story of Ḥay ibn Yaqẓān, literally “Alive, son of Awake,” as he grows up alone on a deserted…