Jules Feiffer
Jules Feiffer (b. 1929) arrived on the national scene after his first collection of Village Voice cartoons, Sick, Sick, Sick: A Guide to Non-Confident Living, published in April 1958, became a best seller. “My definition of humor,” he stated, “is that to be really funny a joke, a story, a comic routine must make an observation on an existing situation, not the myth that we’ve come to know the situation by.” Feiffer’s satires attracted the interest of like-minded show business innovators, including filmmaker Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999) and comedian Steve Allen (1921–2000).
Jules Feiffer (b. 1929) arrived on the national scene after his first collection of <em>Village Voice</em> cartoons, <em>Sick, Sick, Sick: A Guide to Non-Confident Living,</em> published in April 1958, became a best seller. “My definition of humor,” he stated, “is that to be really funny a joke, a story, a comic routine must make an observation on an existing situation, not the myth that we’ve come to know the situation by.” Feiffer’s satires attracted the interest of like-minded show business innovators, including filmmaker Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999) and comedian Steve Allen (1921–2000).