Jules Feiffer, the Pulitzer-Prize and Oscar-winning cartoonist,playwright and screenwriter, was born on 1929 in the New York Cityborough The Bronx. During the 1940s, the young Jules apprenticed withcomic strip artist Will Eisner on his "The Spirit" strip at the QualityComics Group. The strip had floundered during the war, after Eisner hadbeen drafted in 1942, but upon his return, Eisner -- with the aid ofassistants such as Feiffer -- reinvigorated the strip. Under Eisner,Feiffer learned how to tell a story in illustrations and words. Feifferis most famous for his cartoons for The Village Voice, which was openedfor business in a Greenwich Village in October 1955 by Dan Wolf, EdFancher andNorman Mailer. Feiffer'scartoons, which ran in The Voice for 42 years, were syndicated to awide variety of Sunday papers. He also has the distinction of being thefirst opinion-editorial page cartoonist employed by The New York Times,a post he held from 1997 through the year 2000.

In addition to his cartoons, Feiffer wrote the 1967 playLittle Murders (1971), which wasturned into a film in 1971 despite being a flop on Broadway, lastingbut one week of seven performances with a cast that includedHeywood Hale Broun andElliott Gould. Feiffer wrote thescreenplay for the film, which was directed byAlan Arkin; despite having Gould, then at theheight of his fame during the student social upheavals that werecresting and would soon abate, the film was not a success at the boxoffice.

However, Feiffer did taste great cinema success that same year with hisscreenplay forMike Nichols,masterpiece愛の狩人 (1971), anacerbic look at the sexual mores of men who came to maturity just afterWorld War II. Feifer's first foray with motion pictures was theanimated short film 'Munro (1961) (I)', which won the 1961 Academy Awardfor Best Short Subject, Cartoons.

Feiffer has published over 20 books, including the children's classicThe Phantom Tollbooth (1970),which he illustrated and which was made into a movie in 1970.

Feiffer's cartoons for the Voice have been collected in 19 volumes; healso has written the acclaimed children's books "The Man in theCeiling" and "A Barrel of Laughs, A Vale of Tears".

After teaching at the Yale School of Drama and Northwestern Universityand serving as a Senior Fellow at Columbia University's National ArtsJournalism Program, Feiffer took a post at Southampton College (thegraduate school of Long Island University). Among his many honors aremembership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1995), theNational Cartoonist Society Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award(2004), and being named the Creativity Foundation's 2006 Laureate.