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Author photo. Credit: Sharon Aperto, Sept. 28, 2008, Children's Book Day, Tarrytown, NY (image use requires permission)

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Jules Feiffer was born on January 26, 1929. While working as a cartoonist, his work appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, Playboy, The Nation, and The New York Times. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his editorial cartooning in The Village Voice in 1986. His other awards include a George Polk Award for his cartoons; an Obie Award for the play Little Murders; an Oscar for the anti-military short subject animation, Munro; and Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Writers Guild of America and the National Cartoonist Society. He is currently focusing on writing and illustrating books for children and young adults including The Man in the Ceiling, A Room with a Zoo and Bark, George! He has been a professor at the Yale School of Drama, Northwestern University, Dartmouth, and Stony Brook Southampton College. Feiffer has been honored with major retrospectives at the New York Historical Society, the Library of Congress and The School of Visual Arts. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Bark, George… (more)
Bark, George 1,443 copies, 66 reviews
I Lost My Bear 360 copies, 17 reviews
The Man in the Ceiling 360 copies, 9 reviews
The Great Comic Book Heroes (Author) 271 copies, 5 reviews
A Barrel of Laughs, A Vale of Tears (Author, Illustrator, Cover Artist) 255 copies, 4 reviews
Kill My Mother: A Graphic Novel 227 copies, 14 reviews
Meanwhile... 191 copies, 8 reviews
A Room with a Zoo 131 copies, 9 reviews
Backing Into Forward: A Memoir 127 copies, 16 reviews
Little Murders 125 copies, 3 reviews
Daddy Mountain 102 copies, 14 reviews
Tantrum 89 copies, 2 reviews
Hold Me! 72 copies, 1 review
Passionella and Other Stories 71 copies, 2 reviews
I'm Not Bobby 69 copies, 8 reviews
Rupert Can Dance 60 copies, 4 reviews
Cousin Joseph: A Graphic Novel 60 copies, 3 reviews
The House Across the Street 51 copies, 3 reviews
Harry, the Rat with Women 50 copies, 1 review
Spirit Archives, Volume 17 (Contributor, Script Writer) 48 copies
Spirit Archives, Volume 18 (Contributor, Script Writer) 46 copies
By the Side of the Road 44 copies, 2 reviews
Spirit Archives, Volume 26 (Contributor, Script Writer, Penciller, Letterer) 43 copies
Spirit Archives, Volume 21 (Contributor, Cover Artist, Script Writer, Penciller [Layouts], Penciller, Inker) 42 copies
Spirit Archives, Volume 19 (Contributor, Script Writer) 42 copies
Spirit Archives, Volume 20 (Contributor, Script Writer, Penciller [Layouts]) 41 copies
Boy, Girl. Boy, Girl. 40 copies, 1 review
Spirit Archives, Volume 23 (Contributor, Script Writer) 39 copies
Jacob's Eye Patch (Illustrator) 38 copies, 7 reviews
Spirit Archives, Volume 24 (Contributor, Script Writer) 38 copies
Spirit Archives, Volume 22 (Contributor, Script Writer) 38 copies
Ackroyd 36 copies
The Comics Journal Library: Drawing the Line (Interviewee; Contributor) 36 copies
Elliot Loves 32 copies, 1 review
Feiffer's Marriage Manual 32 copies, 3 reviews
Feiffer's Album 31 copies, 1 review
Smart George 23 copies
Grown Ups 11 copies
Feiffer's Children 9 copies, 1 review
Was getekend, Feiffer 4 copies, 1 review
The Phantom Tollbooth (Illustrator) 16,327 copies, 416 reviews
Some Things Are Scary (No Matter How Old You Are) (Illustrator) 518 copies, 35 reviews
The Annotated Phantom Tollbooth (Illustrator) 223 copies, 11 reviews
Strange Stories for Strange Kids (Contributor) 212 copies, 3 reviews
9th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F (Illustrator) 149 copies, 1 review
The Odious Ogre (Illustrator) 149 copies, 7 reviews
Give It Up: And Other Short Stories (Introduction, some editions) 120 copies, 5 reviews
Popeye [1980 film] (Screenwriter) 113 copies, 2 reviews
Henry, the Dog with No Tail (Illustrator) 89 copies, 12 reviews
The Best American Comics 2015 (Contributor) 85 copies, 1 review
Which Puppy? (Illustrator) 75 copies, 5 reviews
Long Island Noir (Contributor) 70 copies, 30 reviews
Spirit Archives, Volume 15 (Penciller [pg 6]) 63 copies
Non Sequitur's Beastly Things (Foreword) 60 copies
Will Eisner: Champion of the Graphic Novel (Contributor) 46 copies, 1 review
The Juggler of Our Lady: A Medieval Legend (Foreword, some editions) 35 copies, 1 review
Trials of the Resistance (Illustrator) 27 copies
Best American Plays: 7th Series, 1967-1973 (Contributor) 23 copies, 1 review
Lost in Space the Reagan Years (Introduction) 11 copies
The Gang of Eight (Illustrator) 10 copies
My Mind Went All to Pieces (Illustrator) 9 copies
The Art of Tony Auth: To Stir, Inform and Inflame (Introduction) 7 copies, 2 reviews
Pork Roasts: 250 Feminist Cartoons (Contributor) 4 copies
Playboy Magazine ~ May 1963 (Contributor) 3 copies
Dondi Volume 1 (Introduction) 3 copies, 1 review
Barbarella speciale (Author) 2 copies
Linus (1970) n.10 (Author) 1 copy
Linus (1969) n.4 (Author) 1 copy
Linus (1967) Luglio (Author) 1 copy
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