“At age 86, Feiffer is into his umpteenth career. In the 1940s he drew comic strips. In the ’50s he started a four-decade run drawing a strip for The Village Voice. In 1961, he illustrated his friend Norton Juster’s story “The Phantom Tollbooth,” the first of several children’s books he has worked on. By the 1970s he had written a couple of novels and a few plays, some of which became movies — most famously “Carnal Knowledge.” Feiffer is now working in a genre that didn’t exist when he started out: the graphic novel.”
A show of Jules Feiffer’s art work opened April 23rd at the Adam Baumgold Gallery in New York, and a book of his collected works, Out of Line: The Art of Jules Feiffer, has just been published.
Read an interview with Feiffer in the New Yorker and read/listen to a story on NPR. See a slide show of cartoons, too!
