COMIC ARTIST

Jules Feiffer

1929 - 2025

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Jules Ralph Feiffer ( FY-fər; January 26, 1929 – January 17, 2025) was an American cartoonist and author, who at one time was considered the most widely read satirist in the country. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for editorial cartooning and, in 2004, Feiffer was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame. He wrote the animated short Munro, which won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1961. The Library of Congress has recognized Feiffer's "remarkable legacy", from 1946 to the present, as a cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter, adult and children's book author, illustrator, and art instructor. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2024). Jules Feiffer is the 169th most popular comic artist (up from 206th in 2024), the 11,763rd most popular biography from United States (up from 14,337th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular American Comic Artist.

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Jules Feiffer ranks 169 out of 226. Before him are Marv Wolfman, Oh! great, Jim Starlin, Alison Bechdel, Peter David, and Tooru Fujisawa. After him are Bill Watterson, Yuu Watase, Atsushi Ohkubo, Harvey Pekar, Jim Lee, and R. K. Laxman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Jules Feiffer ranks 515. Before him are Charles Manring, Vivien Merchant, Joseph Mascolo, Ann Robinson, Lyubov Kozyreva, and Keith Gardner. After him are Clyde Lovellette, Michel Knuysen, Yelizaveta Bagryantseva, Boris Nikolov, Johnny Ace, and Bhanu Athaiya. Among people deceased in 2025, Jules Feiffer ranks 417. Before him are Gus Williams, Kamini Kaushal, Aaron Boupendza, Viktor Shustikov, Andrejs Prohorenkovs, and Peter David. After him are Mike McCallum, Yevgenia Dobrovolskaya, Ian Watkins, Yoshiharu Horii, Alevtina Olyunina, and Jim Bolger.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jules Feiffer ranks 11,765 out of 20,380. Before him are Ken Page (1954), Maya Lin (1959), Horace Grant (1965), Peyton Reed (1964), Helen Gurley Brown (1922), and Marceline Day (1908). After him are Dave Coulier (1959), Jimmy Bryan (1926), Michael Pitt (1981), Perry Farrell (1959), John Shelby Spong (1931), and Ward Kimball (1914).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In United States

Among comic artists born in United States, Jules Feiffer ranks 42. Before him are Mike Mignola (1960), Mort Walker (1923), Marv Wolfman (1946), Jim Starlin (1949), Alison Bechdel (1960), and Peter David (1956). After him are Bill Watterson (1958), Harvey Pekar (1939), Robert Kirkman (1978), Len Wein (1948), Scott McCloud (1960), and Peter Laird (1954).

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