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Jules Feiffer, Pulitzer-winning cartoonist and playwright, dies
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Jules Feiffer, Pulitzer-winning cartoonist and playwright, dies

Jules Feiffer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and playwright who cast a cynical eye on the personal and political anxieties, hypocrisies and disappointments of upper-middle-class urbanites, has died in Richfield Springs, N.Y, One of the most widely read satirists in America, Feiffer died Friday of congestive heart failure, his wife, author JZ Holden, told the Washington

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Jules Feiffer, Acerbic Cartoonist, Writer and Much Else, Dies at 95
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Jules Feiffer, Acerbic Cartoonist, Writer and Much Else, Dies at 95

As a child in the 1930s, Jules loved radio dramas and newspaper comic strips. In his 2010 memoir, “Backing Into Forward,” he cited as influences the cartoonists E.C. Segar (“Thimble Theater,” the strip that introduced Popeye), Al Capp (“Li’l Abner”) and Milton Caniff (“Terry and the Pirates”), among others. He embraced the early comic books,

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