Jules Feiffer

And I think that, you know, the drawings were his exaggerated imaginations of the typical New Orleanian housewife or bar patron.

And early on, they were drawn with real thin lines, sort of like maybe what Jules Feiffer was doing in The Village Voice, except those lines are really tight and angular, and his were like big blobs.

Like a Gahan Wilson.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But it was written by Jules Feiffer based on his own story.

He's a Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist himself.

And I was like, I know that name.

Like, society is fragile.

There's this old movie from, what is it, the '70s called Little Murders, and it was written by Jules Feiffer, uh, who was this, who was this playwright.

And he, uh, it went up on Broadway.

Elliott Gould was really into the movie, and he was, uh, into the, the show.

Everything Is Meat meat.

This guy.

I do know what that is, of course, 'cause we covered the, we're covering the movie Popeye this week.

Hey.

And so I, I, I...

So okay, I always sort of-

Although I do, it is worth mentioning that, like, you kept asking me, "Who's this guy who likes the hamburgers?" [laughs]

Well, I don't...

Roy's family.

I meant to mention this earlier, but I had a moment because Jules Feiffer, the cartoonist, is a cousin.

Yes.

Anne Roife, the writer.

His father was...

Roy's uncle.

And, you know, Jules Feiffer, I was astounded when I learned that Jules was related.

And I had a lovely interview, Jules has passed on, but I talked to him over the phone and He was talking about how, yes, when he was a young boy living in the Bronx, a limousine would show up once or twice every few months, and a care package would be delivered by the chauffeur.

But it took a chance every week in giving a half-hour genre with either a sketch or it could be a musical or it could be a – Carol and Company.

Yeah, Carol and Company was like a Jules Feiffer one act or something like that.

And Julie Andrews and Burt Reynolds, both of whom were good friends with Carol, said, what are you doing with that show? You do a variety show.

You can't do that.

Eve loved one called, I think it's called I Lost My Bear.

It's by Jules Feiffer.

She loves that book.

Still loves that book.

The dream of moving from the fringes of society to center stage while remaining true to one's values and making a significant contribution to the whole world.

Nobody has put it better than Jules Feiffer, the Pulitzer-winning cartoonist who grew up on those comics and later wrote their first serious history.

In the New York Times Magazine in 1996, he traced Superman's origin back past Krypton and into his own neighborhood, saying, "Superman was the ultimate assimilationist fantasy.

The mild manners and glasses that signified a class of nerdy Clark Kents was in no way our real truth.