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  Jules Feiffer
Feiffer's simple drawings penetrated modern life, politics and the strange habits of people and attracted attention in newspapers and albums all over the world.
Jules Feiffer was born in the Bronx, New York City.
Feiffer didn't want Nicholson for the role as a Jew from the Bronx, as the part was originally written.
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 ArtScope.net: JULES FEIFFER: Drawings, Cartoons, Book Art
Feiffer's forms are, perhaps, caricatures, or else just exuberant, expressionist: his dancers contort and curve; the artist's pen and brush follow suit.
Jules Feiffer was born in the Bronx on January 26, 1929, and attended Pratt Institute (1947-1951).
Jules Feiffer was drafted into the U.S. Signal Corps in 1951, during the Korean War.
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 Ninth Book of Junior Authors & Illustrators - Sample Profile: Jules Feiffer
Jules Feiffer was born and raised in the Bronx, and has spent a good part of his life in New York City.
Jules Feiffer returned to the children’s book market nearly thirty years later after establishing his reputation as a political and social cartoonist and playwright.
Jules Feiffer and his wife, Jenny Allan, a writer and stand-up comic, live in New York City with their two daughters.
www.hwwilson.com /print/jrauthorbk_9th_feiffer.htm   (1789 words)

  
 Jules Feiffer Biography and Bibliography at LitWeb.net
Feiffer's simple drawings penetrate into modern life, politics and the strange habits of people, and attracted attention in newspapers and albums all over the world.
Feiffer contributed his scripts with Klaus Nordling from the issue 40 and from 73 Feiffer was the main writer.
Among Feiffers other productions are a novel, illustrations to children's books, plays, a musical comedy LITTLE MURDERS (1968, also made into film), and film scripts CARNAL KNOWLEDGE (1971), which was banned in Georgia and subsequently at issue in the U.S. Supreme Court (1974).
www.litweb.net /biography/341/Jules_Feiffer.html   (574 words)

  
 Jules Feiffer Summary
Satirist Jules Feiffer strips away the illusions and delusions of his characters as he examines the human condition in his screenplays, cartoons, plays, and novels.
Jules Feiffer, who was born on January 26, 1929, in the Bronx, N...
While Jules Feiffer has enjoyed various theatrical honors in the years 1960-1980, he is better known for his work in another genre, the comic strip.
www.bookrags.com /Jules_Feiffer   (253 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: Power of the Pen -- August 10, 2000
JULES FEIFFER: It seemed to me the most impressive presidency, in my time, was those nine months from November 23, 1963, until Lyndon Johnson won the presidency that he ran for himself.
JULES FEIFFER: All of it reflects me and reflects what I think, but the words the characters use may well have nothing to do with what I would say ordinarily.
JULES FEIFFER: I have a new children's book that I illustrated-- I didn't write-- coming out in October, which is called "Some Things Are Scary," by a wonderful 80-year- old author named Florence Parry Heide, and it gave me more fun in drawing than I've had in years.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/media/july-dec00/feiffer_8-10.html   (1615 words)

  
 Jules Feiffer Visits Port Washington Library
Jules Feiffer, the popular, award-winning cartoonist, playwright and author, recently addressed an overflow crowd at the library.
Feiffer labeled his talk "The Story of My Life Slide Show." Growing up during the Great Depression (he was born in the Bronx in 1929), he found inspiration in the comic books and comic strips of his time.
Feiffer, in turn, was very generous with his time, ignoring reminders that his car was waiting.
www.antonnews.com /portwashingtonnews/2003/11/14/news   (1187 words)

  
 Seattle Arts & Lectures - Jules Feiffer
Jules Feiffer came of age as a cartoonist during the Eisenhower era—a time of middle-class conformity and prosperity, with the threat of the bomb brewing beneath the bland surface.
Born in the Bronx in 1929, Feiffer took to drawing early, and upon winning a gold medal in an art contest at age five, he set his course.
Feiffer approached one of his boyhood idols, Will Eisner, (creator of the cartoon The Spirit) who employed Feiffer until he was drafted in 1951.
www.lectures.org /feiffer.html   (627 words)

  
 Royce Carlton - Jules Feiffer Playwright Cartoonist Pulitzer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
When Jules Feiffer came out of the U.S. Army and the East Bronx in his twenties, he introduced a secularized version of the Jewish humor he had been defending himself with all his life.
Well, Jules Feiffer was everything (and more) than we had hoped he'd be.
Feiffer has collaborated with some of the major artists of his time, including Mike Nichols, Jack Nicholson, Robin Williams and Robert Altman.
www.roycecarlton.com /speakers/feiffer.html   (480 words)

  
 Favorite Teenage Angstbooks: A Cool Bit with Jules Feiffer
Jules Feiffer: The answer is a cliché, but they are for children of all ages or adults of all ages.
Feiffer: What turns out to be the kernel behind The Man in the Ceiling… well, I didn't know it until I was somewhat into the book.
Feiffer: Well, my conceit about these drawings is that they are not drawings of dancers but that they are dance themselves.
www.grouchy.com /angst/feiffer.html   (3014 words)

  
 Jules Feiffer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jules Feiffer (born January 26, 1929) is an American syndicated comic-strip cartoonist and author.
Feiffer was born in New York City, in the borough of the Bronx.
Feiffer has most recently written several award-winning children's books including The Man in the Ceiling and A Barrel of Laughs, A Vale of Tears.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jules_Feiffer   (371 words)

  
 Comic creator: Jules Feiffer
Jules Feiffer got his education at the Art Students League in New York and at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.
In the beginning of his career, Jules Feiffer worked at the Eisner-Iger shop as an assistant to the 'Spirit' comic.
Jules Feiffer, who stands as one of the main representatives of the "intellectual comics" scene, received the Pulitzer Prize for his editorial cartooning in 1986.
www.lambiek.net /artists/f/feiffer.htm   (286 words)

  
 HVWC - Jules Feiffer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Although he is perhaps best known for his satirical and political cartoons, Feiffer is also an acclaimed novelist, playwright, and children's author.
Feiffer began his creative career at the age of nineteen, ghostwriting a weekly detective feature.
Two years later he was drafted into the army, where he turned to satirical cartooning to make sense of "the military, the Bomb, the Cold War, the hypocrisy of grown-ups" and the other issues suddenly prominent in his life.
www.writerscenter.org /feiffer.html   (203 words)

  
 Jules Feiffer, The Great Comic Book Heroes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
When Jules Feiffer, author of The Great Comic Book Heroes, was 8 or 9 years old in the late 1930s, comic books were in their infancy.
While Feiffer was serving his boyhood apprenticeship, the comic book industry was growing by leaps and bounds.
Feiffer describes these small dust-ups with humor and a certain audacity.
www.rambles.net /feiffer_great00.html   (240 words)

  
 New York State Writers Institute - Jules Feiffer
His cartoon strip, Feiffer, appeared in the Village Voice from 1956 to 1997, and in 1996 a retrospective exhibition of his work appeared at the Library of Congress.
Feiffer's work in other genres is characterized by the same talent for social satire and commentary.
Jules Feiffer and his wife live in New York City and on Martha's Vineyard and have three daughters.
www.albany.edu /writers-inst/feiffer.html   (330 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Jules Feiffer (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Jules Feiffer[fI´fur] Pronunciation Key, 1927–, American cartoonist and writer, b.
Satirizing a world dominated by the atomic bomb and psychoanalysis, the comic strips were especially concerned with the breakdown of communication between government and citizen, fl and white, and man and woman.
Feiffer's best-known play is the fl comedy Little Murders (1967); others include The Explainers (1961), a musical; Grown Ups (1981); and A Bad Friend (2003).
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/F/Feiffer.html   (305 words)

  
 Interviews: Jules Feiffer
Feiffer believes "there's nothing wrong with a certain degree of neglect." He believes that over-attentive, over-caring, over-solicitous parents of today are neglecting in a new way.
As Feiffer wrote Jimmy's story he began to realize that he wanted to write about the process of failure; "about kids who see failure as a judgement on their lives.
So there will be even more pictures in my next book." Feiffer is currently working on another book for the same age group, a fairy tale "about a man who goes on a quest that turns into chaos and comes out of it.
www.wildewritingworks.com /int/feifferjules.html   (987 words)

  
 NPR : Feiffer, Allen Drawn Together by 'Long Chalkboard'
Morning Edition, October 10, 2006 · Jenny Allen, a journalist, and her husband, cartoonist and playwright Jules Feiffer, have collaborated on their first literary effort, an illustrated book for adults.
Feiffer, a Pulitzer Prize winner whose the comic strip ran for 42 years in The Village Voice, also writes plays and movies.
Feiffer used charcoal to create the illustrations in The Long Chalkboard, a departure from the markers and pens he had used for decades.
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 Amazon.com: The Great Comic Book Heroes: Jules Feiffer: Books: Jules Feiffer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Feiffer ends his fabulous 1965 essay on comic book history with an argument that comics are "junk," but that junk is good, even necessary.
Feiffer wraps up this short book by talking about WHY kids, (even when they've grownup), really need to read comics, to escape from the pressures of the real world for a time.
Feiffer writes several pages of introduction that trace both the history of comics from newspapers to comic books and his own development from a child infatuated with everything about comics and super heroes to an adult writer/cartoonist.
www.amazon.com /Great-Comic-Book-Heroes-Feiffer/dp/1560975016   (2772 words)

  
 Amazon.fr : I Lost My Bear: Livres en anglais: Jules Feiffer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The illustrious Jules Feiffer perfectly captures this sense of utter panic and despair in the thoroughly delightful, I Lost My Bear, a story about a towheaded girl who engages in less-than-scientific detective work to find her absent teddy bear.
Feiffer has created such masterpieces of playful wit as Meanwhile and A Barrel of Laughs, a Vale of Tears, and continues his reign of artful comedy here.
His comic-strip-style illustrations (complete with speech bubbles) are delectably squiggly, scratchy, and sketchy but at the same time precise, expressive, and alive with motion.
www.amazon.fr /Lost-My-Bear-Jules-Feiffer/dp/0688177220   (653 words)

  
 Barnes & Noble.com - Jules Feiffer - Books: Meet the Writers
Journalist/comic Jennifer Allen and husband Jules Feiffer, of cartoonist fame, join forces in a graphic-novel trio that explores baby boomers in their twilight.
Featuring the politically-charged work that made Feiffer famous when The Village Voice and other papers started publishing them in 1956, this volume of collected comic strips is part of a multi-volume set that captures the prolific Feiffer’s work before he became a bestselling author of children’s books.
Feiffer recalled to The Hungry Mind Review that he was deeply moved by the scene in The Catcher in the Rye when Holden Caulfield fell so in love with a book that he wanted to call the author in the middle of the night.
www.barnesandnoble.com /writers/writer.asp?cid=596596   (278 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Meanwhile...: Books: Jules Feiffer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Feiffer (A Barrel of Laughs, a Vale of Tears, 1995, etc.) uses a watercolor comic-strip style for the illustrations, which are more simply drawn than his cartoons for adults; with few large panels per page, Raymond has ample space to express pop-eyed dismay in the face of flying bullets, toothy sharks, and other menaces.
I surely do wish Feiffer would write more children's books, his books are unbeatable for their combination of humor and imagination.
Jules Feiffer's "Meanwhile" is another great example of his feverish, wonderful brain at work.
www.amazon.ca /Meanwhile-Jules-Feiffer/dp/0062059335   (987 words)

  
 Jules Feiffer Biography | Authors and Artists for Young Adults
Born in the Bronx, New York on January 26, 1929, Feiffer was the product of an unhappy marriage.
Each Biography is written by a biographical expert or professional educator and is a complete resource on the individual.
Jules Feiffer from Authors and Artists for Young Adults.
www.bookrags.com /biography/jules-feiffer-aya   (221 words)

  
 Jules Feiffer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Cartoonist, screen writer, novelist, children's author and playwright Jules Feiffer was born in the Bronx on January 26, 1929.
In 1956, his weekly satirical comic strip, "Feiffer," was published in the The Village Voice, where it ran until 1997.
Feiffer has received an Academy Award (animation), for Munro (1961) and an Obi Award for Little Murders (1969).
www.nhptv.org /kn/itv/mcd/feiffer.htm   (212 words)

  
 The CUNY News Wire » Blog Archive » Jules Feiffer’s Drawings at Graduate Center
This fall, the CUNY Graduate Center is presenting the first public showing of Jules Feiffer’s original drawings for The Long Chalkboard and Other Stories, three stories for adults by Feiffer’s wife, Jenny Allen.
Feiffer’s artwork will be on display in the Exhibition Hallway on the first floor of The Graduate Center from October 25 through November 22.
Feiffer is also the author of four novels and numerous plays, including Knock Knock, the Obie Award-winning Little Murders, and Grown Ups, and screenplays such as Carnal Knowledge, Popeye, and I Want to Go Home, winner of the award for best screenplay at the 1989 Venice Film Festival.
www1.cuny.edu /forum/?p=882   (546 words)

  
 Jules Feiffer
      Jules Feiffer, one of American's most influential editorial cartoonists, is also a playwright, novelist, screenwriter and author of children's books.
Feiffer’s Pulitzer-winning comic strip has been influencing and entertaining readers for decades, weaving the social, political, and personal into a perceptive, challenging, often hilarious mix.
Feiffer’s cartoons have appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, Playboy, and The Nation.
www.rmichelson.com /Artist_Pages/Feiffer/Feiffer.htm   (230 words)

  
 Comicartfans :: Galleries :: Jules Feiffer
In the coming weeks and months we will be offering select books from Jules’ reference collection, as well as signed prints, and a limited number of signed original sketches, roughs and layouts.
Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist, children's book author & illustrator, playwright & screenwriter, Jules Feiffer has enthralled readers of all ages for over fifty years with his contributions to such varied sources as The New York Times, The Village Voice, Playboy, The New Yorker, and his numerous and much loved children's picture books & novels.
This is the Jules Feiffer collaboration with his wife Jenny Allen Feiffer and is scheduled for release on October 10th, 2006.
www.comicartfans.com /GalleryDetail.asp?GCat=12784   (372 words)

  
 Cartoonist, writer Jules Feiffer at IPFW April 26
Cartoonist, writer Jules Feiffer at IPFW April 26
Feiffer will discuss “his life and funny times” Thursday, April 26, at 7:30 p.m.
Feiffer, also the author of six plays, two novels, and three movies, weaves social, political and personal issues into a different way of seeing the world.
www.indiana.edu /~ocmhp/041301/text/feiffer.html   (180 words)

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