Jules Feiffer, born in the Bronx, is an internationally recognized cartoonist, artist, author, and playwright.  His syndicated cartoon strip, for which he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize, ran for forty years in The Village Voice.  He has written more than thirty-five books, plays, film scripts, and has won numerous awards.  Feiffer lives and works in New York City.
In May 2006, Jules Feiffer was honored with the Benjamin Franklin Creativity Laureate Award, given by the Smithsonian Resident Association Program in Washington, DC.

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Artist Biography

The Man Who Knew Too Much, ink and watercolor on paper,
24 x 18 inches, 2004

Architecture, ink and watercolor on paper, 2002

Sweet Dreams, ink and watercolor on paper, 2
4 x 18 inches, 2004

Me, Me, Me, ink and watercolor on paper,
22 x 17, 2005

Untitled
ink on paper
14 1/2 x 17 inches

Couple, A Dance to Truculence,
ink and watercolor on paper,
17 x 22 inches, 2005

Couple, Untitled,
charcoal and watercolor on paper,
15 x 10 inches, 2005

Man, Disappearing,
ink and watercolor on paper,
15 x 11 inches, 2004

Man, Nightwalk,
ink and watercolor on paper,
28 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches, 2000

Woman, Self-Absortion,
ink and watercolor on paper,
20 x 16 inches, 2005

One Hour Tonight, ink & watercolor on paper, 19.5 x 15 inches, 2004

The Farewell, ink & watercolor on paper, 15 x 11 inches, 2004
Last Round
23" X 20" framed
ink and watercolor on paper
2002

Belting Out
ink and watercolor on paper
16 x 12 inches
2002

Untitled
17" X 14" framed
ink and watercolor on paper
1998
Jules Feiffer

BORN
1929, The Bronx, New York

RESIDES
New York, New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006

Golden Oldies: The Strips, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, NY
Drawings for The Long Chalkboard & Other Stories, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, NY
2005 Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL
2004

Julz Rulz: Inside the Mind of Jules Feiffer, District of Columbia Jewish Community Center, Washington, DC
2003

Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL
Julz Rulz: Inside the Mind of Jules Feiffer, The New York Historical Society, New York, NY
The Time of My Life, a solo retrospective of children’s book art, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI
Carol Craven Gallery, West Tisbury, MA
2002 Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL
1996 Retrospective, Library of Congress, Washington, DC
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 The World Through Pictures: Children’s Book Illustrations, Tall Grass Arts Association, Park Forest, IL
2007-8 Aqua Art Miami, Adam Baumgold Gallery, Miami, FL
2005

Words in Pictures, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, NY
Painting the Town Red, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL

2004 Out of the Blues, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003

14th Annual Children’s Illustration Show featuring Jules Feiffer, R. Michelson Galleries, Northampton, MA
WordWorks, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, NY
AWARDS, COMMISSIONS, & PUBLICATIONS
2006

Masters Series Award, The Visual Arts Foundation, New York, NY
Benjamin Franklin Creativity Laureate Award, Smithsonian Resident Associate Program, Washington, DC
2005 Illustrations, Holiday Book Review (Dec. 4), The New York Times
2004 Harold Washington Literary Award, presented by the Near South Planning Board
Lifetime Achievement Award, Writer’s Guild of America East
Lifetime Achievement Award, National Cartoonist Society
2002 Illustrations, Holiday Book Review (Dec. 8), The New York Times
1999 Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Long Island University
1995 Elected to American Academy of Arts and Letters
1989 Best Screenplay for I Want to Go Home, Venice Film Festival
1997 Commissioned by The New York Times to draw monthly OpEd cartoon
1986 Pulitzer Prize for political cartoons
1970 Obie and Outer Circle Critics Awards for White House Murder Case
1969 Obie and Outer Circle Critics Awards for Little Murders
1961 Academy Award for Best Animated Short, Munro
1959-2000 National cartoon syndication
1956-1997 Published cartoons in The Village Voice
PLAYS
2003 A Bad Friend, Lincoln Center, NY
1990 Anthony Rose
1989 Elliot Loves
1982 Grown Ups
1976 Knock, Knock
1970 White House Murder Case
1969 Little Murders
SCREENPLAYS
1989 I Want to Go Home
1980 Popeye
1971

Carnal Knowledge
Little Murders
1960 Munro, animated film
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
2005 A Room with a Zoo
2004 The Daddy Mountain
2002

By the Side of the Road
The House Across the Street
2001 I’m Not Bobby
2000

Some Things are Scary, by Florence Parry Heide, illustrated by Jules Feiffer
1999 Bark, George
1998 I Lost My Bear
1997 Meanwhile
1995 A Barrel of Laughs, A Vale of Tears
1993 The Man in the Ceiling
1961 The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster, illustrated by Jules Feiffer

CARTOON COLLECTIONS (SELECTED)
1984 Ronald Reagan in Movie America: A Jules Feiffer Production
1974 Feiffer on Nixon: The Cartoon Presidency
1966 Feiffer on Civil Rights
1965

The Great Comic Book Heroes
The Unexpurgated Memoirs of Bernard Mergendeiler
1963 Feiffer’s Album
1962 Hold Me!
1961 Boy, Girl, Boy, Girl
1959 Passionella and Other Stories
1958 Sick, Sick, Sick

 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Member, American Academy of Arts and Letters
Professor, Southampton College Writers Program
Appointed Senior Fellow, National Arts Journalism Program, Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism
Visiting Professor, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University
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