Jules Feiffer
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| Jules Feiffer | |
 Feiffer, in 1958. |
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| Born | January 26, 1929[1] Bronx, New York City, USA |
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| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Cartoonist, Author, Playwright, Screenwriter |
| Notable works | Popeye |
| Awards | Academy Award, 1961 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning, 1986 Comic Book Hall of Fame, 2004 National Cartoonist Society Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award, 2004 |
| Official website | |
Jules Ralph Feiffer (born January 26, 1929[1]) is an American syndicated comic-strip cartoonist and author.[2][3] He is the author of numerous plays, screenplays (Carnal Knowledge, 1971, Little Murders, 1971) and children's books (Henry, The Dog With No Tail, A Room With a Zoo, The Daddy Mountain among many others). In 1986 he won the Pulitzer Prize for his editorial cartooning in The Village Voice, and in 2004 was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame.
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[edit] Career
Feiffer served as an assistant for Will Eisner in the 1940s, learning to tell stories with words and pictures while working on Eisner's acclaimed The Spirit comic strip.
Feiffer also wrote the stage play Little Murders, the screenplay for Mike Nichols's 1971 film Carnal Knowledge, illustrated the children's book classic The Phantom Tollbooth, wrote the book The Great Comic Book Heroes (an extract of which Quentin Tarantino adapted for a speech in his film Kill Bill), and won an Oscar in 1961 for his short animation "Munro". In addition, Feiffer wrotethe screenplay for Robert Altman's Popeye film, a movie version of Little Murders, and the screenplay for Alain Resnais's film I Want to Go Home.
Feiffer's cartoons ran for 42 years in the The Village Voice and have been collected into 19 books. They have also appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, Esquire, Playboy, and The Nation. He was commissioned in 1997 by The New York Times to create its first op-ed page comic strip which ran monthly until 2000. During the late 1950s Feiffer wrote a series of cartoon books called Sick, Sick, Sick, More Sick, Sick, Sick and Passionella which is a graphic narrative initially anthologized in Passionella and Other Stories, and based on the story of Cinderella. The protagonist is Ella, a chimney sweep who is transformed into a Hollywood movie star. Passionella is used in a musical, The Apple Tree.
Feiffer has most written several award-winning children's books including The Man in the Ceiling, which he has partnered with Disney and musical-theater writer Andrew Lippa to turn into a musical; and A Barrel of Laughs, a Vale of Tears.
His artworks are exhibited at and represented by Jean Albano Gallery in Chicago, Illinois.
[edit] Teaching
Feiffer is an adjunct professor at Southampton College. Previously he taught at the Yale School of Drama and Northwestern University. He has been a Senior Fellow at the Columbia University National Arts Journalism Program.
He was in residence at the Arizona State University Barrett Honors College from November 27 to December 2, 2006.
Feiffer will be in residence as a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College from June to August 2009. While at Dartmouth, Feiffer will teach an undergraduate course on graphic humor in the twentieth century.
[edit] Awards
In 1986 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for political cartoons, and has received numerous awards before and since. He received the National Cartoonist Society Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004[4] and the Creativity Foundation's 2006 Laureate.[5]
[edit] References
- ^ a b Comics Buyer's Guide #1650; February 2009; Page 107
- ^ Feiffer bio at his website.
- ^ Feiffer bio at the Internet Movie Database.
- ^ Gardner, Alan. "Jules Feiffer to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award," The Daily Cartoonist (Jan. 30, 2007). Accessed March 3, 2009.
- ^ Creativity Foundation Laureates.
[edit] External links
- Official website
- Jules Feiffer at the Internet Movie Database
- A gallery of Feiffer's work
- An Interview of Jules Feiffer by the AV Club
| Awards and achievements | ||
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| Preceded by Jeff MacNelly |
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning 1986 |
Succeeded by Berke Breathed |
