Jules Feiffer, acclaimed cartoonist and writer, dies at 95 | PBS News NEW YORK (AP) — Jules Feiffer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and writer whose prolific output ranged from a long-running comic strip to plays, screenplays and children’s books, died Friday. He was 95 and, true to his seemingly tireless form, published his last book just four months ago.[…]Artistically limber, Feiffer hopscotched among numerous forms of expression, chronicling the curiosity of childhood, urban angst and other societal currents. To each he brought a sharp wit and acute observations of the personal and political relations that defined his readers’ lives.As Feiffer explained to the Chicago Tribune in 2002, his work dealt with “communication and the breakdown thereof, between men and women, parents and children, a government and its citizens, and the individual not dealing so well with authority.”Feiffer won the United States’ most prominent awards in journalism and filmmaking, taking home a 1986 Pulitzer Prize for his cartoons and “Munro,” an animated short film he wrote, won a 1961 Academy Award. The Library of Congress held a retrospective of his work in 1996.“My goal is to make people think, to make them feel and, along the way, to make them smile if not laugh,” Feiffer told the South Florida Sun Sentinel in 1998. “Humor seems to me one of the best ways of espousing ideas. It gets people to listen with their guard down.”[…]“It’s hard to remember what hypocrisy looked like before Jules Feiffer sketched it,” ….[continues with nods to all… Read more »
stephen on our recent times, an age of even more hostility and hypocrisy than Feiffer could ever imagine:
On the first day of President Trump’s second term he pardoned the Jan 6 rioters, gutted America’s climate policies, raised the price of insulin and pulled out of the World Health Organization. Elsewhere, presidential advisor Elon Musk is doing damage control after making an apparent Nazi salute at Trump’s inauguration celebration.
We are on day two of another round with President Donald Trump, he has a new official portrait, they have already redecorated the Oval Office, Musk has been badgering team Trump to give him an office in the West Wing, Biden left a letter for Trump that he only discovered after a reporter pointed it out, he has signed more than a hundred executive orders and actions, he celebrated at his many inaugural balls with performances from Billy Ray Cyrus and the Village People, he got mad at church after the Bishop dared to bring the teachings of Jesus into things, and a shocking Inauguration Edition of Lie Witness News.
Police union that endorsed Trump blasts Jan. 6 pardons:
“Allowing those convicted of these crimes to be released early diminishes accountability and devalues the sacrifices made by courageous law enforcement officers and their families”
Sickening.
Former Capitol Hill.Police Sergeant Aquilino Gonell posted this on Bluesky — his call log. Each call is an automated Dept of “Justice” notification saying “The defendant you testified against is being released from the dept of corrections.”
Each defendant assaulted him.
My guess is the last time a “nasty woman” talked to him like that it was Melania telling him contract fulfilled. No more grabbing, no more mouth touching, no more anything. Just show time in front of cameras. AND, the real reason she is moved into the WH is so he can’t bring in pros, she is going to have him celibate for the next few years.
Pogo, i added editing options for mobile devices, assume that’s where you’re having trouble with quotations. They’re disabled by default in this system because sometimes these options don’t work well on phones, so let me know what happens with enabling them.
Sprinkles Stuff
2 hours ago
He released them all because he’s too lazy to review and sign individual pardons
BB……that’s exactly what I was thinking when I saw the photo of the “kissus hat interrupts”
“This is as close as you’ll ever get again,” she whispered as the hat blocked that kiss.
Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde’s compassionate sermon at the National Prayer Service in DC perfectly exposed MAGA Christians’ hateful heresy.
Honestly, I feel sorry for people who want to be both Christian and MAGA, who think they can be devoted to Jesus and to Donald Trump simultaneously, who labor under the false assumption that their bastardized, territorial, self-centered white nationalist GOP version of Christianity is remotely of God.
And I know that the actual words of Jesus are the most triggering of any they could be faced with, and so the ugliness these words generate aren’t surprising and neither is their scalding rage toward those of us who regularly share those words with them.
MAGA friends out there, I’m not saying this white Republican theocracy built on power, exclusion, and subjugation that you’re tethered to is anti-Jesus, and that you’re failing him by worshipping someone like Donald Trump.
Bishop Budde isn’t saying that, either.
Jesus is saying that.
If you have a problem with that, take it up with him.
Some have tried to claim Adolf only released J6ers because Biden pardoned Hunter. Nope! Adolf always said he would, campaigned on it with their choir’s soundtrack at rallies. MAGAts are not the law & order party, they are the THEIR-law-and-order party.
Just more of their gaslighting, like we didn’t see what Elon did, but if we did it’s because he’s on the spectrum. Nope! He’s high-functioning (and seems to function high, so maybe the party drugs will get him), and he does big, media events for his taxpayer-subsidized companies. He knew what he was doing, he did it twice, the crowd cheered, and he/they/we know what it meant.
Are the so-Christians going to stay silent while he continues to do what Jesus would not do, and criticize those who speak Jesus’ true message? Of course they won’t make a peep. It’s a cult of Christo-fascists.
Is anybody looking into Adolf’s multiple claims that Elon rigged the election for him?
Is anything Adolf has done since he took the oath to uphold the US Constitution an impeachable offense?
Does Adolf realize that not touching the Bible during the oath does not mean anything?
How long before embassies leave/kick us out, put travel restrictions on Elon, hated-inked Hegseth, and other assorted nutzis?
Anonymous
1 hour ago
We can also stop pretending American Christianity is about anything other than exclusion, you can stop appealing to their hypocrisy, they don’t care
About exclusion—and burning people when they can get away with it.
Just try and tell me that Speaker Johnson wouldn’t throw the first match. He’d have a Super Sized box of Diamond Brand Kitchen matches. Strike anywhere.
If the 2nd coming of Christ came to Trumperica, he’d be an undocumented immigrant and they’d throw him in a holding cell to await deportation with the other brown-skinned folk, as per official state policy
Sprinkles Stuff
1 hour ago
Trying to reason with people who are by definition unreasonable, will, i posit, be an unfruitful endeavor
I avoided posting Edgar’s birthday on Sunday, we were already sufficiently anxiety-ridden (the Ravens lost.) But his thoughts are still with me. The essence of his quote is we lose our minds in the attempt to rationalize the irrational.
“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”– Edgar Allan Poe
Jules Feiffer, acclaimed cartoonist and writer, dies at 95 | PBS News NEW YORK (AP) — Jules Feiffer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and writer whose prolific output ranged from a long-running comic strip to plays, screenplays and children’s books, died Friday. He was 95 and, true to his seemingly tireless form, published his last book just four months ago.[…]Artistically limber, Feiffer hopscotched among numerous forms of expression, chronicling the curiosity of childhood, urban angst and other societal currents. To each he brought a sharp wit and acute observations of the personal and political relations that defined his readers’ lives.As Feiffer explained to the Chicago Tribune in 2002, his work dealt with “communication and the breakdown thereof, between men and women, parents and children, a government and its citizens, and the individual not dealing so well with authority.”Feiffer won the United States’ most prominent awards in journalism and filmmaking, taking home a 1986 Pulitzer Prize for his cartoons and “Munro,” an animated short film he wrote, won a 1961 Academy Award. The Library of Congress held a retrospective of his work in 1996.“My goal is to make people think, to make them feel and, along the way, to make them smile if not laugh,” Feiffer told the South Florida Sun Sentinel in 1998. “Humor seems to me one of the best ways of espousing ideas. It gets people to listen with their guard down.”[…]“It’s hard to remember what hypocrisy looked like before Jules Feiffer sketched it,” ….[continues with nods to all… Read more »
his work made us think… sometimes sigh and sometimes cry.
stephen on our recent times, an age of even more hostility and hypocrisy than Feiffer could ever imagine:
On the first day of President Trump’s second term he pardoned the Jan 6 rioters, gutted America’s climate policies, raised the price of insulin and pulled out of the World Health Organization. Elsewhere, presidential advisor Elon Musk is doing damage control after making an apparent Nazi salute at Trump’s inauguration celebration.
and kimmel’s take
We are on day two of another round with President Donald Trump, he has a new official portrait, they have already redecorated the Oval Office, Musk has been badgering team Trump to give him an office in the West Wing, Biden left a letter for Trump that he only discovered after a reporter pointed it out, he has signed more than a hundred executive orders and actions, he celebrated at his many inaugural balls with performances from Billy Ray Cyrus and the Village People, he got mad at church after the Bishop dared to bring the teachings of Jesus into things, and a shocking Inauguration Edition of Lie Witness News.
Even the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board is stunned: “This is a rotten message from a President about political violence done on his behalf”
Police union that endorsed Trump blasts Jan. 6 pardons:
https://fop.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/pr-20250121-joint-statement-on-pardons.pdf
Sickening.
Former Capitol Hill.Police Sergeant Aquilino Gonell posted this on Bluesky — his call log. Each call is an automated Dept of “Justice” notification saying “The defendant you testified against is being released from the dept of corrections.”
Each defendant assaulted him.
Trump insults indigenous with going back on the Denali name change
Why is Denali being renamed to Mount McKinley by President Trump? – NBC Chicago
Quoting Jesus really pisses him off.
Tax all churches then
The most petty, fragile man in a world of petty, fragile men
My guess is the last time a “nasty woman” talked to him like that it was Melania telling him contract fulfilled. No more grabbing, no more mouth touching, no more anything. Just show time in front of cameras. AND, the real reason she is moved into the WH is so he can’t bring in pros, she is going to have him celibate for the next few years.
There IS NO EQUIVALENCY between Biden forced to pardon his family from a vengeful monster and Trump pardoning cop beaters.
he could have pardoned the violent cop-beaters before he left office in 2020 but didn’t want to admit he encouraged them
FUCK IT seems to be the business model of this presidency.
— Read on AXIOS
Pogo, i added editing options for mobile devices, assume that’s where you’re having trouble with quotations. They’re disabled by default in this system because sometimes these options don’t work well on phones, so let me know what happens with enabling them.
He released them all because he’s too lazy to review and sign individual pardons
in re Feiffer cartoon.
Moe-rality
BB……that’s exactly what I was thinking when I saw the photo of the “kissus hat interrupts”
“This is as close as you’ll ever get again,” she whispered as the hat blocked that kiss.
https://johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/maga-christianity-is-anti-jesus-just?
Some have tried to claim Adolf only released J6ers because Biden pardoned Hunter. Nope! Adolf always said he would, campaigned on it with their choir’s soundtrack at rallies. MAGAts are not the law & order party, they are the THEIR-law-and-order party.
Just more of their gaslighting, like we didn’t see what Elon did, but if we did it’s because he’s on the spectrum. Nope! He’s high-functioning (and seems to function high, so maybe the party drugs will get him), and he does big, media events for his taxpayer-subsidized companies. He knew what he was doing, he did it twice, the crowd cheered, and he/they/we know what it meant.
Are the so-Christians going to stay silent while he continues to do what Jesus would not do, and criticize those who speak Jesus’ true message? Of course they won’t make a peep. It’s a cult of Christo-fascists.
Is anybody looking into Adolf’s multiple claims that Elon rigged the election for him?
Is anything Adolf has done since he took the oath to uphold the US Constitution an impeachable offense?
Does Adolf realize that not touching the Bible during the oath does not mean anything?
How long before embassies leave/kick us out, put travel restrictions on Elon, hated-inked Hegseth, and other assorted nutzis?
We can also stop pretending American Christianity is about anything other than exclusion, you can stop appealing to their hypocrisy, they don’t care
About exclusion—and burning people when they can get away with it.
Just try and tell me that Speaker Johnson wouldn’t throw the first match. He’d have a Super Sized box of Diamond Brand Kitchen matches. Strike anywhere.
today’s meme…
If the 2nd coming of Christ came to Trumperica, he’d be an undocumented immigrant and they’d throw him in a holding cell to await deportation with the other brown-skinned folk, as per official state policy
Trying to reason with people who are by definition unreasonable, will, i posit, be an unfruitful endeavor
FF’s natural affinity is with law breakers and oath violators. They’re his peeps. The rest of the population is cannon fodder.
i’m Team JD, now, in sincerity
Sorry i had to be cheap, Mr. VP, was trying to win an election. You did it, too 🤝
Hey Olbermann, run for something, fuck that podcast that i enjoy thanks to Sturgeone turning me on to it 🫡
…starting to get mad that you haven’t already, now that i think about it, maybe it was YOU the whole goddamned time!
speaks sports, way with women, political but not a politician, built-in audience, used to rancor, incites rancor
you’re ticking a lot of boxes, Sir
I avoided posting Edgar’s birthday on Sunday, we were already sufficiently anxiety-ridden (the Ravens lost.) But his thoughts are still with me. The essence of his quote is we lose our minds in the attempt to rationalize the irrational.
I recognized at the outset a Department of Fatherland Security was our first step toward the legalization of fascism.
meme #2…