Jules Feiffer, Acerbic Cartoonist, Writer and Much Else, Dies at 95

 

 

"“It’s hard to overstate how transformative to cartooning Jules’s early work was,” Garry Trudeau, creator of the comic strip “Doonesbury,” wrote in an email. “By stripping down the art to a sequence of elegant, repetitive images, he found a way to convey astonishingly sophisticated ideas without distraction. No balloons, no screens, no backgrounds, no panels, just simple line drawings and the flow of bright, witty dialogue.”

“Like ‘Peanuts,’” Mr. Trudeau added, “‘Feiffer’ reflected his generation’s obsession with psychology and the examined life. In ‘Feiffer’s’ world, the mind was a war zone, and the protagonist was usually his own worst enemy. And no subject was off the table — not politics, sex, religion or war. I’d never seen anything remotely like it, and it set me and many others on a path toward a new kind of comics.”

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Jules Feiffer, Acerbic Cartoonist, Writer and Much Else, Dies at 95