Jules Feiffer

Jules Feiffer (1929–2025) was an American cartoonist, writer, playwright, screenwriter, and children’s book author and illustrator. His long-running satirical comic strip, Feiffer, appeared in The Village Voice, and his work earned a Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, an Academy Award for the animated short Munro, and an Obie Award for Little Murders.

Feiffer wrote and illustrated numerous books for children, including The Man in the Ceiling, A Barrel of Laughs, a Vale of Tears, I Lost My Bear, Bark, George, and Meanwhile… He also wrote the novels Harry, the Rat with Women and Ackroyd, and the screenplays for Carnal Knowledge and Popeye.