The following obituary is courtesy of Luke Cornelius, who originally drafted it for Multiversity Comics.
Author: Luke Cornelius
washington post Coverage of legendary cartoonists and writers Jules Feiffer He died Friday, January 17, at his home in Richfield Springs, New York. JZ Hortonstating the cause of death was congestive heart failure. Feaver was 95 years old. phantom toll plaza (go through Norton Justas shown above, to the left of Feiffer.
Feiffer won an Oscar for the animated short “Monroe” and went on to receive multiple Writers Guild of America Award nominations for scripts such as “Carnal Knowledge” and “Little Murders.” He has been nominated for a Tony Award and an Obie Award for his plays and a Pulitzer Prize for his cartoons, as well as Lifetime Achievement Awards from the National Cartoonists Society and the Eisner Award. Feiffer is truly a creator who transcends media and has an impact on all of them.
Jules Ralph Feiffer was born on January 26, 1929 in the Bronx to a Jewish family. davidis a basically unemployed salesman, and his mother, Rhodais a fashion designer who sells watercolor designs door to door. It was she who encouraged Jules to start drawing from an early age. When he was 13, he had a drawing table in his bedroom. His mother sent him to the Art Students League of New York to study anatomy, and he graduated from James Monroe High School in 1947.
Comics really captured Feiffer’s imagination growing up. He read the cartoon in the newspaper his father brought home and quoted our boarding house, Hutong Uppand cleaning bucket as some of his favorites. After graduating at 16, Feiffer sought employment with his idol, Will Eisner. Despite Eisner’s dislike of Feifer’s artwork, Eisner was forced to offer Feifer a low-paying job due to Feifer’s passion for his work and their similar upbringings. But eventually, their relationship blossomed and Eisner allowed Feiffer to work on the balloon Spiritbefore completing an entire story of his own.
In 1956, Feiffer stopped working with Eisner and began working on village voiceinitially for free, and later as a cartoonist, started his own comics, which he continued until 1997. Sick, sick, sickand Feiffer’s Fableeventually becoming Feiffer. He published his comic book collection, Sick, Sick, Sick: A Guide to Living with Unconfidencewhich made him a regular contributor to the magazine london observer and playboy Magazine. By April 1959, Feaver’s comic strip was distributed nationwide.
Throughout his career, Feaver continued his success Sick, sick, sick Collections There are many more collections such as explainer, Jules Feiffer’s America: From Eisenhower to Reaganand Marriage is an invasion of privacy and other dangerous ideas. He has written two novels and several children’s books great comic book heroesthe first superhero history in 1965. loose the temperpublished in 1979.
In addition to printing, Feaver also worked in theater and film. he wrote Gene Deitchof Munrowon the 1961 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. little murder (1967), Feiffer’s people (1969), murder in the white house (1970), knock knock (1976), grown ups (1982), and Eliot loves (1990). He wrote the screenplay for the 1971 film adaptation little murderand the script Mike Nicholsof carnal knowledge, Robert Altmanof Popeyeand I want to go home.
In recent years, Feifer has held a variety of positions at various educational institutions. In 2010, his autobiography, Backward and Forward: A Memoir published and in 2014 wrote the critically acclaimed kill my motherwith a prequel, Kill My Mother: My Cousin Josephreleased two years later. In 2024, he published his first (and only) children’s graphic novel, magic grapes.
Feiffer has received numerous awards for his comics career, including the 1986 Pulitzer Prize and 2004 induction into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame. little murder and murder in the white house It won him an Obie Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award in 1969 and 1970 respectively, and the Writers Guild of America awarded him a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010.
Feiffer married his first wife; Judith Scheftel1961; they had a child. In 1983, he remarried the comedian Jennifer Allenand also has two children. They divorced in 2013 and he married JZ Holden in 2016. Harley Feifferand writer Kate Feiffer.
