Jules Feiffer

Jules Feiffer is an award-winning cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter and children's book author and illustrator, best known for his long-running comic strip in The Village Voice, for which he won a George Polk Award and Pulitzer Prize. The first cartoonist commissioned by The New York Times to create comic strips for its Op-Ed page, Feiffer has since shifted his focus towards writing and illustrating books for children and young adults, including The Man in the Ceiling, A Room with a Zoo and Bark, George!

Feiffer won an Academy Award for his animated short Munro. His plays Little Murders and The White House Murder Case each garnered Obie and Outer Circle Critics awards. He has written two novels, Harry the Rat with Women and Ackroyd, a graphic novel, Tantrum, and scripts for Carnal Knowledge, Popeye and I Want to Go Home. His 2010 memoir is titled Backing into Forward.

Feiffer's other honors include Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Writers Guild of America and the National Cartoonist Society, and major retrospectives at the New York Historical Society, the Library of Congress and the School of Visual Arts. He has taught at the Yale School of Drama, Northwestern University, Dartmouth and presently at Stony Brook Southampton College.