Jules Feiffer
Jules Feiffer (born January 26, 1929 in New York ) is an American comic strip artist. He has also written scripts for movies and plays. In 1986 he won the Pulitzer Prize for his editorial cartoon in The Village Voice , and in 2004 he was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame and elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014.
life and work
Feiffer was born in the Bronx, a New York borough. In the 1940s Feiffer was hired as a helper for Will Eisner . While working on Eisner's acclaimed comic strip The Spirit , he learned to tell stories with words and pictures. Feiffer also wrote the play Little Murders , the screenplay for Mike Nichols' 1971 film Carnal Knowledge , illustrated the children's classic The Phantom Tollbooth, and won an Oscar in 1961 for his short cartoon Munro . He has also written the scripts for the film Popeye by Robert Altman and the film I Want to Go Home by Alain Resnais and a film version of Little Murders .
Feiffer's cartoons have been featured in The Village Voice for 42 years and have been collected in 19 books. They have also appeared in the Los Angeles Times , The New Yorker , Esquire , Playboy , and The Nation . He was hired by the New York Times in 1997 to create his first op-ed page comic strip, which ran monthly until 2000. Feiffer has illustrated award-winning children's books, including The Man in the Ceiling and A Barrel of Laughs, A Vale of Tears .
Feiffer is an Associate Professor at Southampton University. Previously, he taught at the Yale School of Drama and Northwestern University . He was a Senior Fellow of the Columbia University National Arts Journalism Program. Feiffer is a member of the Dramatists Guild Council and has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters . He received the National Cartoonist Society Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004 and the Creativity Foundation's 2006 Laureate .
Feiffer's daughter Halley Feiffer , born in 1985, works as an actress.
Works (selection)
- Kill my mother . Liveright, 2014
Radio plays
- "The Curse of Laughter" (SWR 2001, director: Leonhard Koppelmann )
Filmography (selection)
- 1971: Small killer (Little Murders)
Web links
- Jules Feiffer's website ( memento of July 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) at julesfeiffer.com (English)
- Jules Feiffer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Jules Feiffer in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Feiffer, Jules |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American comic strip cartoonist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 26, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York , USA |