Jules Feiffer

Jules Feiffer, an artist whose creative instincts and political passions could not be confined to one medium, died on Friday January 17 2025 at his home in Richfield Springs, N.Y., west of Albany. He was 95. His wife, JZ Holden, said the cause was congestive heart failure. Feiffer was primarily known as a cartoonist. His syndicated black-and-white comic strip, “Feiffer,” began in The Village Voice in 1956 and ran for more than 40 years. But his career also encompassed novels, plays, screenplays, animation and children’s books. In 1986, Mr. Feiffer won a Pulitzer Prize for his cartoons. As a creator of children’s books, he helped create an acknowledged classic, “The Phantom Tollbooth” As a screenwriter, Mr. Feiffer collaborated with the French filmmaker Alain Resnais (on the 1989 film “I Want to Go Home”) and the American directors Robert Altman (“Popeye”) and Mike Nichols (“Carnal Knowledge”).