Jules Feiffer, ‘Phantom Tollbooth’ Cartoonist, Dead at 95

Jules Pfeiffer, cartoonist known for his satirical comic strips Pfeiffer And his scenarios, he died at the age of 95. His wife, JZ Holden, confirmed this New York times He died of congestive heart failure. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Pfeiffer’s work satirized postwar anxieties among New York’s nervous set. “With his obsession with politics and psychology, his sarcastic wit and his stylized drawings, he is the link from Lenny Bruce to Larry David, from Walt Kelly and James Thurber to Garry Trudeau and Art Spiegelman.” Written by Michiko Kakutani in 2010. Pfeiffer won the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for editorial cartooning in the village voice, Where his animation Pfeiffer It ran from 1956 to 1997. His Winning work Stylistically he focused on monologues, in which his characters work their way into political satire. “If you make cartoons about men and women, it’s usually about what doesn’t work and how it breaks down,” Pfeiffer said. the Comics magazine in 2011. “It has to be concise, it has to be pithy, it has to make a point, and it has to be fun. It must be in six panels.

outside PfeifferPfeiffer was a famous playwright and screenwriter. for him Animated film MonroeThe film is about a 4-year-old boy who is mistakenly drafted into the army and is based on a comic strip written by Pfeiffer while in the army himself. It won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1961. His plays include Petty murders (’67) and Knock knock (’76), which was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play. He wrote the screenplay for the 1971 Mike Nichols film Physical knowledge (which earned Ann-Margret an Academy Award nomination) and Robert Altman film 1980 Popeye. He also illustrated the 1961 book Phantom Tollbooth. his biography, Back to the Front: A Memoir, It was released in 2010. In her review of the book, Kakutani described the memoir and Pfeiffer himself as “funny, acerbic, subversive, deeply attuned to the absurdities of his life and the country as a whole.”