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Jules Feiffer (1929–2025) was an American cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter, author, and illustrator. His long-running Village Voice strip made him one of the most influential American satirists of the postwar era and won him the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. He wrote novels, plays, screenplays, nonfiction, memoir, graphic novels, cartoon collections, and children's books. His graphic novel Tantrum was an early major work in the form, while his later noir trilogy began with Kill My Mother. He also illustrated Norton Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth, but illustration-only works are excluded here.
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Jules Feiffer's Newest Book
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Start with one of these
Sick, Sick, Sick: A Guide to Non-Confident Living
The first published collection and a concise entry point to Feiffer's satirical cartooning.
Kill My Mother: A Graphic Novel
The first volume of his completed noir graphic-novel trilogy.
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Books by series
graphic-novel-series · complete
Kill My Mother trilogy
A completed noir graphic-novel trilogy following interconnected characters across twentieth-century American crime and family histories.
Outside the series
Bibliography by category
Novels (9)
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Harry, the Rat with WomenAmazon ↗novel · 1963
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The Great Comic Book HeroesAmazon ↗nonfiction · 1965
- The Unexpurgated Memoirs of Bernard MergendeilerAmazon ↗
graphic-fiction · 1965
- Pictures at a Prosecution: Drawings and Text from the Chicago Conspiracy TrialAmazon ↗
nonfiction · 1971
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AckroydAmazon ↗novel · 1977
- Tantrum: A Novel-in-CartoonsAmazon ↗
graphic-novel · 1979
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The Man in the CeilingAmazon ↗novel · 1993
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A Barrel of Laughs, a Vale of TearsAmazon ↗novel · 1995
- Amazing GrapesAmazon ↗
graphic-novel · 2024
Nonfiction (1)
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Backing into Forward: A MemoirAmazon ↗memoir · 2010
Short fiction (1)
- Passionella and Other StoriesAmazon ↗
short-story-collection · 1959
Essays and speeches (2)
Children's books (10)
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Meanwhile...Amazon ↗picture-book · 1997
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I Lost My BearAmazon ↗picture-book · 1998
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Bark, GeorgeAmazon ↗picture-book · 1999
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I'm Not Bobby!Amazon ↗picture-book · 2001
- By the Side of the RoadAmazon ↗
picture-book · 2002
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The House Across the StreetAmazon ↗picture-book · 2002
- The Daddy MountainAmazon ↗
picture-book · 2004
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A Room with a ZooAmazon ↗picture-book · 2005
- Rupert Can DanceAmazon ↗
picture-book · 2014
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Smart GeorgeAmazon ↗picture-book · 2020
Plays (10)
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Crawling ArnoldAmazon ↗play · 1963
- Little MurdersAmazon ↗
play · 1968
- Feiffer's People: Sketches and ObservationsAmazon ↗
play · 1969
- The White House Murder Case: A Play in Two ActsAmazon ↗
play · 1970
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Carnal Knowledge: A ScreenplayAmazon ↗screenplay · 1971
- VD BluesAmazon ↗
screenplay · 1974
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Knock KnockAmazon ↗play · 1976
- Hold Me!Amazon ↗
play · 1977
- Grown-UpsAmazon ↗
play · 1982
- Elliot LovesAmazon ↗
play · 1990
Other (11)
- Sick, Sick, Sick: A Guide to Non-Confident LivingAmazon ↗
cartoon-collection · 1958
- The ExplainersAmazon ↗
cartoon-collection · 1960
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Boy, Girl, Boy, GirlAmazon ↗cartoon-collection · 1961
- Feiffer's AlbumAmazon ↗
cartoon-collection · 1963
- Hold Me!Amazon ↗
cartoon-collection · 1963
- The Penguin FeifferAmazon ↗
cartoon-collection · 1966
- Feiffer's Marriage ManualAmazon ↗
cartoon-collection · 1967
- Feiffer on Nixon: The Cartoon PresidencyAmazon ↗
cartoon-collection · 1974
- Feiffery: Jules Feiffer's America from Eisenhower to ReaganAmazon ↗
cartoon-collection · 1982
- Feiffer's Children: Including MunroAmazon ↗
cartoon-collection · 1986
- Ronald Reagan in Movie America: A Jules Feiffer ProductionAmazon ↗
cartoon-collection · 1988