Jules Feiffer was perhaps the last emissary from what might be called the Heroic Age of the Cartoonist.
Feiffer, who died on Jan. 17 at age 95, parlayed his day job as the creator of a weekly newspaper comic strip into a position of extraordinary cultural prominence. For the midcentury intelligentsia, Feiffer, who drew his signature strip in various incarnations from 1956 through 1997, was a name to be dropped in hip company in the same manner as Norman Mailer or Lenny Bruce. To peruse the latest Feiffer strip was to receive affirmation of one’s views of Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, and the battle of the sexes — in his panels, the radical left saw itself reflected
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