Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1929, Jan. 26 | Born, New York, N.Y. |
| 1946 | Attended Art Students League, New York, N.Y. |
| 1946-1951 | Assistant to cartoonist Will Eisner for comic book The Spirit |
| 1947-1951 | Attended Pratt Institute Art School, Brooklyn, N.Y. |
| 1949-1951 | Syndicated cartoon strip Clifford |
| 1951-1953 | United States Army, Signal Corps; worked in cartoon animation unit |
| 1953-1956 | Held various positions in the art field, including producer of slide films, writer for CBS Films Terrytoons, and designer of booklets |
| 1956-1997 | Published cartoon strip in the Village Voice originally entitled Sick, Sick, Sick soon changed to Feiffer |
| 1957 | Published Passionella and Other Stories (New York: McGraw Hill. 190 pp.) |
| 1958 | Published Sick, Sick, Sick (New York: McGraw Hill. 130 pp.) Illustrated My Mind Went All to Pieces by Robert Mines (New York: Dial Press. 93 pp.) |
| 1959 | Began syndicating his cartoon strip Feiffer Published The Unexpurgated Memoirs of Bernard Mergendeiler (New York: Random House. 85 pp.) |
| 1960 | Published The Explainers (New York: McGraw Hill. 120 pp.) |
| 1961 | Married Judith Sheftel (divorced 1983) Published Boy, Girl, Boy, Girl (New York: Random House. 120 pp.) Illustrated The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster (New York: Epstein & Carroll. 256 pp.) Recipient, George Polk Memorial Award |
| 1963 | Published Harry, the Rat with Women (New York: McGraw Hill. 181 pp.), Hold Me! (New York: Random House. unpaged.), Feiffer's Album (New York: Random House. 132 pp.) , and Crawling Arnold (New York: Dramatists Play Service. 23 pp.) |
| 1965 | Published Great Comic Book Heroes (New York: Dial Press. 189 pp.) |
| 1966 | Published The Penguin Feiffer (Harmondworth, England: Penguin. [121] pp.) |
| 1967 | Published Feiffer's Marriage Manual (New York: Random House. 60 pp.) |
| 1968 | Published Little Murders (New York: Random House. 113 pp.) |
| 1970 | Published The White House Murder Case: A Play in Two Acts & Dick and Jane: A One-Act Play (New York: Grove Press. 122 pp.) |
| 1971 | Published Carnal Knowledge: A Screenplay (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 117 pp.) |
| 1973-1974 | Taught at Yale Drama School, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. |
| 1974 | Published Feiffer on Nixon: The Cartoon Presidency (New York: Random House. 64 pp.) |
| 1976 | Published Knock, Knock: A Play (New York: Hill and Wang. 120 pp.) |
| 1977 | Published Ackroyd: A Novel (New York: Simon and Schuster. 349 pp.) and Hold Me! An Entertainment (New York: Dramatists Play Service. 52 pp.) |
| 1979 | Published Tantrum: A Novel in Cartoons (New York: Knopf. 183 pp.) |
| 1982 | Published Jules Feiffer's America: From Eisenhower to Reagan, edited by Steven Heller (New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 254 pp.), and Grown Ups: A Play (New York: Samuel French. 92 pp.) |
| 1983 | Married Jennifer Allen |
| 1984 | Published Marriage Is an Invasion of Privacy, and Other Dangerous Views (Kansas City, Kan.: Andrews, McMeel & Parker. 128 pp.) |
| 1986 | Received Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartoons, a lifetime achievement award |
| 1988 | Published Ronald Reagan in Movie America (Kansas City, Kan.: Andrews, McMeel & Parker. 128 pp.) |
| 1990 | Published Elliot Loves: A Play (New York: Grove Press. 82 pp.) |
| 1993 | Published The Man in the Ceiling (New York: HarperCollins. 185 pp.) |
| 1995 | Published A Barrel of Laughs, A Vale of Tears (New York: HarperCollins. 180 pp.) |
| 1997 | Published Meanwhile (New York: HarperCollins. 30 pp.) |
| 1998 | Published I Lost My Bear (New York : Morrow Junior Books. circa 40 pp.) |
| 1999 | Pulished Bark, George (New York: HarperCollins. 30 pp.) |