Jules Ralph Feiffer (born January 26, 1929) is an American syndicated comic-strip cartoonist and author. He is the author of numerous plays, screenplays (Carnal Knowledge, 1971, Little Murders, 1971) and children's books (Henry, The Dog With No Tail, A Room With a Zoo, The Daddy Mountain among many others). In 1986 he won the Pulitzer Prize for his editorial cartooning in The Village Voice, and in 2004 was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fam...
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Jules Ralph Feiffer (born January 26, 1929) is an American syndicated comic-strip cartoonist and author. He is the author of numerous plays, screenplays (Carnal Knowledge, 1971, Little Murders, 1971) and children's books (Henry, The Dog With No Tail, A Room With a Zoo, The Daddy Mountain among many others). In 1986 he won the Pulitzer Prize for his editorial cartooning in The Village Voice, and in 2004 was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame.
Feiffer served as an assistant for Will Eisner in the 1940s, learning to tell stories with words and pictures while working on Eisner's acclaimed The Spirit comic strip.
Feiffer also wrote the stage play Little Murders, the screenplay for Mike Nichols's 1971 film Carnal Knowledge, illustrated the children's book classic The Phantom Tollbooth, wrote the book The Great Comic Book Heroes (an extract of which Quentin Tarantino adapted for a speech in his film Kill Bill), and won an Oscar in 1961 for his short animation "Munro". In addition,...
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