![]() ![]() In 1956, when his strip in The Village Voice began appearing, I was an art director at CBS Television designing ads for I Love Lucy, Amos ‘n’ Andy, and other shows that I found unwatchable. His work as a cartoonist, a novelist, a playwright, and a creator of children’s books over the past 70 years inspired me to attempt things I never would have without his example. And, in a way, I owe the career I’ve had as a caricaturist to Jules. ![]() I live in Manhattan but was determined to pay Jules a visit-we have been friends for half a century, and I was the best man when Jules married Joan. It turned out that the air around Cooperstown, New York, was about as good as you could get, so Joan and Jules bought a house in a nearby town. Joan Holden, Jules’s wife, wasted no time in doing research to find out which area had the best air quality. But Jules’s doctor gave him an additional admonishment: Jules had to move far away from his home on Shelter Island. ![]() We both became cartoonists, and last year, both of us ended up in different emergency rooms with heart failure, in the same week.Īfter four or five days, we were both discharged from the hospital with pretty much the same array of pills, as well as orders to stay away from salt. We both grew up to be terrible at sports, and we both started to draw characters from the comics when we were 8 or 9 years old. Jules Feiffer and I were born 94 years ago in the Bronx, two months apart. ![]()
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