Jules Feiffer was considered the dean of American "intellectual" cartoonists. Jules Ralph Feiffer first introduced his searching graphic vignettes in the "Village Voice" in 1956, and has since grown in stature to become one of the leading social, psychological, and political commentators in the country.

He used a narrative sequence of pictures in which, through revealing monologues, the artsy classes of Greenwich Village exposed themselves as essentially hypocritical or somewhat self-delusional. Editorial cartoonists soon began using multi-panel cartoons occasionally too, and began imparting psychological insight to their views of public issues.

Feiffer was born in the Bronx of New York and attended the Art Students Leag...