R.I.P. Jules Feiffer

And so one black day succeeds another, and so it shall be for the foreseeable future. It doesn’t surprise me that Jules Feiffer (b. 1929) endured but one day of the restored Trump monarchy, and said “Fuck it, I’m out of here.” Still it makes me very sad, because there goes another link to the kind of America I believed in. I was privileged to know Feiffer and work with him about 20 years ago, and the experience enriched me a great deal. There were depths there to be plumbed.

I have written extensively about the cartoonist/ playwright/ and screenwriter several times before, so now I will attach you to those posts. Much sympathy to his wife, his daughters, and the rest of us.

Main Jules Feiffer post and his memoir Backing Into the Future.

On Little Murders (1967)

On Altman’s Popeye (1980)

On Kill My Mother (2015)

On the Village Voice (seems related)

A Terrific Tribute by Friend Jeff Lewonczyk