By RM
thursday, january 23, 2025 at 6:41:00 p.m. est
Jules Feiffer, dead at a mere 95 (just a heartbeat before 96), but imagine how long he might have lived, if not for apartheid!
Well, here it is, if you want to post it:
https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/arts/jules-feiffer-dead.html
He was very talented, but, sadly, a lifelong, flaming liberal. In the sample cartoon posted at the commie film board by the vile David Colton (ex-editor at usa today), Feiffer’s “dancer” character dances in hope of “gun control” and “an end to racism.” How can you live so long and still be so ignorant of life’s realities?
[N.S.: Where is this, RM?]
He wrote the screenplay for Popeye, which I always forget was made by Robert Altman-I actually LIKED that movie! Contrary to what the nyt says, unfortunately it was NOT a hit! (When Hook came out, Robin Williams made a very sharp joke: “Brought to you by the people who made 1941, ISHTAR, and Popeye!”) (That’s Spielberg, Hoffman, and Williams-and three big-budget flops.)”
NOT mentioned in the obit, or anywhere else I’m aware of: Feiffer’s Munro, which gave his career a big boost when it was made into an Oscar-winning cartoon, was swiped from a brilliant Phil Silvers Show/Sgt. Bilko episode called “The Court-Martial,” written by Nat Hiken. In it, a chimp is accidentally inducted into the army and no one notices; Feiffer changed it to a small boy being drafted into the army, likewise with nobody noticing that he’s only a little boy!
Nonetheless, R.I.P.
-RM
NOTE: To read the nyt article, click OPTION 2.
By RM
thursday, january 23, 2025 at 6:41:00 p.m. est
... OPTION 2 on the remove paywall site.
N.S.: When I was a teenager and saw his cartoon in the village voice, I felt duty-bound to respect him, but in retrospect, I think he was vastly overrated.
3 comments:
The 1985 cartoon is pretty good.
--GRA
That was 1985. Today,you'd substitute social security(Is it dead?),blood pressure meds(are they dead?),erectile dysfunction drugs dead yet?
No.
Then yuppies aren't dead either(some of them).
--GRA
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/monsterkidclassichorrorforum/jules-feiffer-screenwriter-cartoonist-etc-t95586.html
Yes, it's supposed to be a board about horror films, but it's unregulated by Mr. Colton (Taraco) and they prattle about anything and everything. And, like contemporary comic book/comic strip fans, they are ALL liberals.
At least his artwork had life (unlike most cartoonists today). And, unlike most people lauded by the NYT, he really WAS popular and influential. I only hated his politics!
-RM
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