Biography
Jules Feiffer was an American cartoonist, playwright and screenwriter. Born in the Bronx, New York City, on 26 January 1929, he died on 17 January 2025. He began his career assisting Will Eisner on the comic strip The Spirit and created the long-running satirical strip Feiffer for The Village Voice from 1956 to 2000.
Feiffer wrote the screenplays for Carnal Knowledge (1971), directed by Mike Nichols, and Popeye (1980), directed by Robert Altman. He also wrote the play Little Murders (1967), which he adapted for the screen in 1971. In 1986 he received the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning.
