Mr.

Jules Ralph Feiffer

(
1929
2025
)
Stony Brook University Southampton
;
East Hampton, NY
Artist (cartoonist); Writer (novelist, playwright, screenwriter, children's literature); Educator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Visual Arts
Elected
2014

Internationally syndicated cartoonist and writer. Work regularly appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, Esquire, and the Los Angeles Times, besides running for 42 years in The Village Voice. Plays include Little Murders (1967), People (1969), Elliot Loves (1990), The White House Murder Case, and Grown Ups. Mike Nichols 1971 film Carnal Knowledge adapted from an unproduced Feiffer play. Feiffer scripted Robert Altman's Popeye, Alain Resnaiss I Want to Go Home, and the film adaptation of Little Murders. Member, Comic Book Hall of Fame. Pulitzer Prize and George Polk Award for cartooning, Academy Award for his animated, anti-military satire Munro, Obie and Outer Circle Critics Award for Little Murders and The White House Murder Case, National Cartoonists Societys Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award, and Writers Guild of America Lifetime Achievement Award. Artwork has had retrospective exhibits at the New York Historical Society, the Library of Congress and The School of Visual Arts.

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