Creator Bio
Jules Feiffer
b. 1929
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.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Sick, Sick, Sick, comic strip, The Village Voice
Sick, Sick, Sick was very different from other comic strips of the 1950s. It had the format of a comic strip but did not have conventional story lines or superheroes. Instead, it was more like an…
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The Minsk Theory of Krypton: Jerry Siegel (1914-1996)
“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…