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Feiffer, Jules
1929 - Born on January 26th in New York, New York. Jules Feiffer, the Pulitzer-Prize and Oscar-winning cartoonist, playwright and screenwriter.
1955 - Feiffer is most famous for his cartoons for The Village Voice, which was opened for business in a Greenwich Village in October by Dan Wolf, Ed Fancher and Norman Mailer.
1961 - Feifer's first foray with motion pictures was the animated short film Munro, which won the Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Cartoons.
1970 - Feiffer has published over 20 books, including the children's classic The Phantom Tollbooth, which he illustrated and which was made into a movie.
1971 - Feiffer wrote the play Little Murders, which was turned into a film despite being a flop on Broadway, lasting but one week of seven performances with a cast that included Heywood Hale Broun and Elliott Gould.
1976 - Was nominated for Broadway's Tony Award as author of Best Play nominee "Knock Knock".
1986 - Won a Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning.
1995 - Among his many honors are membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
- He wrote and illustrated juvenile novel "A Barrel of Laughs, A Vale of Tears".
2004 - Received the National Cartoonist Society Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award.
1955 - Feiffer is most famous for his cartoons for The Village Voice, which was opened for business in a Greenwich Village in October by Dan Wolf, Ed Fancher and Norman Mailer.
1961 - Feifer's first foray with motion pictures was the animated short film Munro, which won the Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Cartoons.
1970 - Feiffer has published over 20 books, including the children's classic The Phantom Tollbooth, which he illustrated and which was made into a movie.
1971 - Feiffer wrote the play Little Murders, which was turned into a film despite being a flop on Broadway, lasting but one week of seven performances with a cast that included Heywood Hale Broun and Elliott Gould.
1976 - Was nominated for Broadway's Tony Award as author of Best Play nominee "Knock Knock".
1986 - Won a Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning.
1995 - Among his many honors are membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
- He wrote and illustrated juvenile novel "A Barrel of Laughs, A Vale of Tears".
2004 - Received the National Cartoonist Society Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award.
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- "Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?"
- "I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. They told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime. But I have a great vocabulary."
- "The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten."
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