Jules Feiffer, one of American's most influential editorial cartoonists,
is also a playwright, novelist, screenwriter and author of children's
books. Feiffer’s Pulitzer-winning comic strip has been influencing
and entertaining readers for decades, weaving the social, political,
and personal into a perceptive, challenging, often hilarious mix.
His sensibility permeates a wide range of creative work: from his
Obie Award-winning play Little Murders (a prophetic vision of random
urban violence), to his screenplay for Carnal Knowledge, to his
Oscar-winning anti-military short subject animation, Munro. Feiffer’s
cartoons have appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, Playboy, and
The Nation. He was commissioned by The New York Times to create
its first op-ed page comic strip which ran monthly until 2000, when
Feiffer decided to start off the new millennium by giving up cartooning.
In his mid-sixties, he reinvented himself as a children’s
book author. His first book, The Man in the Ceiling, was selected
by Publisher’s Weekly and the New York Public Library, as
one of the year’s best children’s books. Two other award-winning
books, Bark George, and I Lost My Bear, are being adapted into animated
cartoons.
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