JULES FEIFFER

Jules Feiffer is a cartoonist, writer, illustrator, and playwright from the 1950s to the present. He is best known for his long running Pulitzer Prize winning syndicated comic strip Feiffer, which ran in The Village Voice for 42 years, and he was the first opinion-editorial page cartoonist for The New York Times from 1997 to 2000, and he also wrote the screen plays for several movies including: Little Murders, Carnal Knowledge, and Popeye. He was a major comic book fan before almost anyone else was, and in 1965, he convinced the publishers of mainstream comics to allow him to reprint (in full color) the origin stories of Superman, Batman, and many others in a hardcover book called "The Great Comic Book Heroes", and that surely was a major factor in the birth of the modern comic book collecting hobby! As of 2022, he is still alive at the age of 93!