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Jules Feiffer

Biography

Jules Feiffer

Jules Feiffer won a number of prizes for his cartoons, plays and screenplays, including the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. His books for children include THE MAN IN THE CEILING; A BARREL OF LAUGHS, A VALE OF TEARS; I LOST MY BEAR; BARK, GEORGE; and MEANWHILE... Feiffer passed away on January 17, 2025 at the age of 95 due to congestive heart failure. His final book, AMAZING GRAPES, was his first graphic novel for children.

Jules Feiffer

Books by Jules Feiffer

by Jules Feiffer - Fiction, Graphic Novel

While in the midst of the Great Depression, Big Sam sees himself as a righteous, truth-seeking patriot, defending the American way against a rising tide of left-wing unionism, strikes and disruption that plague his home town. At the same time, he makes monthly, secret overnight trips on behalf of Cousin Joseph, a mysterious man on the phone he has never laid eyes on, to pay off Hollywood producers to ensure that they will film only upbeat movies that idealize a mythic America. But Sam himself is not in for a happy ending, as step by step the secret of his unseen mentor's duplicity is revealed to him.

by Jules Feiffer - Fiction, Graphic Novel, Noir

Adding to a legendary career that includes a Pulitzer Prize, an Academy Award, Obie Awards, and Lifetime Achievement Awards from the National Cartoonist Society and the Writers Guild of America, Jules Feiffer now presents his first noir graphic novel. KILL MY MOTHER, a loving homage to the pulp-inspired films and comic strips of his youth, centers on five formidable women from two unrelated families, linked fatefully and fatally by a has-been, hard-drinking private detective.

written by Lois Lowry, illustrated by Jules Feiffer