Sick, Sick, Sick
Jules Feiffer
1958
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Jules Feiffer
b. 1929
Jules Feiffer grew up in the Bronx, New York. He is a writer, cartoonist, playwright, illustrator, and screenwriter whose cartoon series, first entitled Sick Sick Sick and later called Feiffer, ran for forty-two years in the Village Voice. Feiffer is the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize and lifetime achievement awards from the National Cartoonist Society and the Writers Guild of America. He taught at the Yale School of Drama and at Southampton College. Since 2014, he has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Visual and Material Culture in the Mid-Twentieth Century
1939–1973
Jewish visual art flourished and diversified in the postwar period, reflecting the social and political transformations taking place in the world.
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