Jules Feiffer, Pulitzer Prize Winning Cartoonist, Dead At 95

Jules Feiffer, American cartoonist, seated with proof sheets from Sick Sick Sick (1958), his first book. Credit: Library of Congress, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Jules Feiffer has died at age 95.

Born January 26, 1929 in New York City, Feiffer got his start at age 17 as an assistant to another legend, Will Eisner, where he helped with iconic comics like The Spirit. However, his career really got a big bump up in 1956 when his strip Feiffer was first printed in the Village Voice, where it ran until 1997. Among other publications, Feiffer was published in the New York Times, where he pioneered the paper’s first op-ed comic strip.

In 1986, Feiffer won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning, and in 2004 he was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame. His publications include Sick, Sick, Sick, The Great Comic Book Heroes (the first ever history of comic book superheroes), and many more. Feiffer’s output ranged from collections of his works, to histories, to plays, Academy Award winning shorts, and more.

His graphic novels include Tantrum, which was published in 1979, Kill My Mother (2014), Cousin Jospeph (2016), and The Ghost Script (2018). Feiffer was working until the end: Amazing Grapes, his first ever graphic novel for young readers, was published in 2024.

Feiffer is survived by his wife, JZ Holden, and his three cats, Mimi, Jackson and Dezzdemona.

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