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Jules Feiffer

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The Resume

    (January 26, 1929- )
    Born in Bronx, New York
    Cartoonist for the Village Voice (1954-96)
    Editorial cartoonist for the New York Times (1997-2000)
    Wrote the plays ‘Little Murders’ (1967), ‘The White House Murder Case’ (1970), ‘Knock, Knock’ (1976), ‘Grown Ups’ (1981) and ‘A Bad Friend’ (2003)
    Wrote the novels ‘Harry the Rat with Women’ and ‘Ackroyd’
    Wrote the children’s books ‘Henry, the Dog with No Tail,’ ‘A Room with a Zoo,’ ‘The Daddy Mountain,’ ‘Bark, George, ‘I Lost My Bear,’ ‘Meanwhile…,’ ‘The Man in the Ceiling’ and ‘A Barrel of Laughs, A Vale of Tears’
    Illustrated ‘The Phantom Tollbooth’
    Wrote screenplays for ‘Carnal Knowledge’ (1971), ‘Popeye’ (1980) and ‘I Want to Go Home’ (1989)
    Received the National Cartoonists Society’s Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award (2004)

Why he might be annoying:

    He said, ‘I saw myself as a failure as a boy.’
    His cartoons were so wordy, often half a panel would be taken up by dialogue.
    He said he began writing children’s books after he had a falling out with an author whose book he was going to illustrate and ‘I got so mad, I said, ‘Okay, fuck you, I'll write my own children's book, and it will be better than yours.’’

Why he might not be annoying:

    He has won a Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning (1986), two Obies for his plays (1967,1970) and an Oscar for animated short film (1961).
    Gary Trudeau said, ‘No other cartoon in strip format was dealing on a regular basis with themes as adult as sex, politics, psychiatry.’
    When the White House asked for a copy of one of his cartoons of LBJ, he replied, ‘All he has to do is get out of Vietnam and he can have my entire library.’

Credit: C. Fishel


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Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 3 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 4 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 9 Votes: 77.78% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 3 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 11 Votes: 36.36% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 33 Votes: 36.36% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 17 Votes: 52.94% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 13 Votes: 53.85% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 5 Votes: 20.0% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 21 Votes: 33.33% Annoying