Jules Feiffer
Illustrator
In their own words
I don’t want to know what I’m going to do until I start doing it, and a voice says, “Do this, and do that.”
The book, in a sense, instructs me on how to write and draw it.
Everything I’ve ever done is to get me out of the trouble I did.
It’s an endless fight. Endless fights go on endlessly!
Articles & interviews3
- Dolly Parton’s Printed Legacy Extended Beyond Music
Steven Heller remembers the late cartoonist, writer and illustrator Jules Feiffer through their final interview, conducted around Feiffer's children's graphic novel Amazing Grapes. Feiffer discusses his improvisational creative process, the book's fantastical story of three siblings, his longtime editor Michael Di Capua, the Obama-inspired title, and the autobiographical and therapeutic role of his work.
- World War 3 Illustrated spotlights animal rights issue
World War 3 Illustrated, a politically engaged comics and graphics magazine founded in 1979, is highlighted through its current animal-rights-themed issue, “Animal Rights and Planet Wrongs.” Co-founder and periodic editor Peter Kuper discusses the collective’s enduring political concerns, its evolving editorial makeup, and its role in publishing and mentoring emerging comic artists.
- Ron Cobb: Sharp ’60s Cartoonist and Iconic Sci-Fi Film Designer
Steven Heller commemorates Ron Cobb as an influential Vietnam War- and Civil Rights-era alternative political cartoonist whose incisive, cross-hatched cartoons addressed militarism, police power, environmental destruction and social inequality. The article also notes Cobb's later career as a science-fiction film concept artist and announces Ron Cobb Ahead in the Clouds, a documentary about his life being made by filmmaker Rachel Lane and Broken Hill Films.