Jules Feiffer
American cartoonist, screenwriter and playwright (1929–2025)
Biography
Jules Ralph Feiffer was an American cartoonist and author, who at one time was considered the most widely read satirist in the country. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for editorial cartooning and, in 2004, Feiffer was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame. He wrote the animated short Munro, which won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1961. The Library of Congress has recognized Feiffer's "remarkable legacy", from 1946 to the present, as a cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter, adult and children's book author, illustrator, and art instructor.
Occupation
Jules Feiffer is recorded as a draftsperson, a children's writer, a caricaturist, a journalist, a cartoonist, a university teacher, a comics artist, a playwright, a writer, a actor and a screenwriter, born in New York (1929–2025).
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