Jules Feiffer completely innovated political cartoons, expanding beyond one-panel punchlines and visual tropes by featuring ordinary people, often in monologue, being riled, resigned, grousing—and dancing. Straight up one of the best to ever do it. - ThreadSky

mattbors.bsky.social • 36 days ago

Jules Feiffer completely innovated political cartoons, expanding beyond one-panel punchlines and visual tropes by featuring ordinary people, often in monologue, being riled, resigned, grousing—and dancing.

Straight up one of the best to ever do it.

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valabama.bsky.social•36 days ago

He was always the first thing I looked for when I picked up the Village Voice. RIP.

markasch58.bsky.social•36 days ago

Powerful stuff.

stephenbaines.bsky.social•36 days ago

That’s brutal. I’d never seen that one. Thx and RIP.

demopat.bsky.social•36 days ago

His illustrations in The Phantom Tollbooth brought that story to life for me as a child. I still get a surge of nostalgia when I see any of his work, he had such a distinctive style. RIP.

okitruther.bsky.social•36 days ago

From the wife of a now deceased editorial cartoonist, keep on hammering the knothead! He deserves all the laughs you can crown him with. Keep up the good work!!

kimphilbywasbad.bsky.social•36 days ago

My favorite was an interpretive dance explaining how to win debates from Europeans. Just nuts but real

danweissmann.bsky.social•36 days ago

Absolute legend. A king.

bestjakeyoung.bsky.social•36 days ago

FUCKKKKK.

raeleemaycarpenter.bsky.social•36 days ago

This is brilliant and also heartbreaking.

And nothing has changed.

curryluv25.bsky.social•33 days ago

Gracie's mom is here!

curryluv25.bsky.social•31 days ago

I'm having trouble figuring this site out. Another reason I caved and went back on fb. But I'm going to try.

hbogart.bsky.social•36 days ago

What an amazing American icon. I had the opportunity to interview him a couple of times. A visionary. May his memory forever be a blessing. May we learn the lessons he tried to teach us about our society

slouchyr.bsky.social•36 days ago

When I was 10, Billy Graham said 10 year olds would fight in Vietnam. They wound down in my senior year in hs,

alexremington.bsky.social•36 days ago

Rereading Sick, Sick, Sick is simply stunning. Both his political and his social satire were sharp enough to hit hard decades after the strips ran in the Voice.

alexremington.bsky.social•36 days ago

Just saw this one and thought it was worth posting.

https://bsky.app/profile/alexremington.bsky.social/post/3lgbafrcd3c27

jamberstone1.bsky.social•36 days ago

Wow. That really hit

darkcafedays.bsky.social•36 days ago

May he rest in peace. I'm glad for him that his exit was so well-timed.

rivergoat.bsky.social•36 days ago

Love him! Early childhood idol.

Mourning in America.

shenloop.bsky.social•36 days ago

Feiffer, Hudson, Lynch, please no more for a bit...

bitwix.bsky.social•36 days ago

I gave my girlfriend a copy of Feiffer’s “Tantrum”. Reader, she married me (still together 30+ years later). His message and drawing style were outstanding.

allthepages.org•36 days ago

That cartoon is my life! I was in first grade when JFK was killed and was in the Army when Saigon fell.

Wow.

Intellectually I knew the timeline; but seeing in this format caused a visceral reaction.

mamasus50.bsky.social•36 days ago

COMPLETELY agree....altho I am older than you....13 when JFK was shot. JF was a "not to be missed" in our home...Seeing this now, however, leaves me more than a little wistful...NOT ENOUGH change thru the generations...& EVEN MORE "real world" worries now.

creativeelc.bsky.social•36 days ago

Thank you for sharing his life. I never heard of him before but his obituary was so informative & very special: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/jules-feiffer-dead-cartoonist-1236113743/

fiona-webster22.bsky.social•36 days ago

Oh wow, Emma. You have a lot of great art to explore!

creativeelc.bsky.social•36 days ago

Thank you Fiona! Very kind ❤️

arlettam.bsky.social•36 days ago

I was not familiar with Feiffer's work but you've shared one that really hits on his visual and rhetorical/satirical skills - showing the futility of US war in Vietnam. I just hope Feiffer did equally good work on behalf of the Vietnamese people who were the real victims of this war.

auntpatty.bsky.social•36 days ago

Agree, absolutely brilliant.

postsenjoyer.bsky.social•36 days ago

Banger. First time I’m seeing or hearing this person, thanks.

postsenjoyer.bsky.social•36 days ago

Hearing of*

dqspider.bsky.social•36 days ago

i fucking love feiffer man. probably read his work way too early (i discovered it while still elementary school aged) but it still captivated me even if i couldn't really appreciate it

dqspider.bsky.social•36 days ago

FUCK. well this is how i found out i guess

dqspider.bsky.social•36 days ago

"I sing to drown out my screaming" made me laugh as a small child and that was probably an ill omen

ddmoc.bsky.social•36 days ago

This hurt!😭

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