Jules Feiffer
Jules Feiffer
Jules Ralph Feiffer is an American syndicated cartoonist and author, who was considered the most widely read satirist in the country. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 as America's leading editorial cartoonist, and in 2004 he 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 his "remarkable legacy", from 1946 to the present, as a...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth26 January 1929
CityBronx, NY
CountryUnited States of America
I've backed off cliffs all of my career. The best things I've done I've backed into. I never understood what I was getting into, I never started out to be a political cartoonist. There wasn't this kind of cartoonist when I started. I wanted to do traditional strips in the newspapers and backed into what I did then and backed into writing plays and backed into children's books. And what I'll back into next, I don't know, but I'll be looking forward to going backward.
I grew up to have my father's looks- my father's speech patterns-my father's posture- my father's opinions and my mother's contempt for my father
A Barrel of Laughs, a Vale of Tears.
I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy. I was deprived. (Oh not deprived but rather underprivileged.) Then they told me that underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime. But I have a great vocabulary.
I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively active, constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia. Turns out I'm normal.
Imagination continually frustrates tradition; that is its function.
I'm well beyond dyslexic: I have no sense of direction; I never know where I am.
We want playmates we can own.
I've never met a cartoonist who isn't quirky or weird in some ways.
Eventually, if it's on your mind, you stumble on it. You need a certain amount of luck and persistence.
There's no rap against comics that isn't true. They were sexist, they were racist, you name it - and they kind of gloried in that.