Everyone understands a Feiffer representation once they see one: His characters jump around the web page, every one line belying humor and mental perception. Over Feiffer’s prolific 70-year profession, his nimble and singular mind's eye has given us new views in addition to biting satires on politics, love, marriage, and religion—alternating with tales imbued with the playful anarchy of a kid. Feiffer’s different output comprises children’s books (The Phantom Tollbooth and Bark, George), performs (Little Murders), videos (Carnal Knowledge and Popeye), and comedian strips (most significantly in his Pulitzer Prize–winning Village Voice caricature of forty two years). Out of Line: The artwork of Jules Feiffer is the long-awaited illustrated retrospective of Feiffer’s celebrated profession, supplying a revealing glimpse into his inventive approach and his position as America’s leading Renaissance guy of the arts.
 
Praise for the paintings of Jules Feiffer:
 
“Jules Feiffer is not just an Academy Award–winning filmmaker, yet a Pulitzer Prize winner, a playwright, a instructor, a children’s ebook writer and illustrator, and a screenwriter. he's additionally one of many maximum cartoonists operating today.” —Robert Osborne
 
“Jules Feiffer is a long-distance runner. . . . He has been working on the optimum point of his craft, generating a physique of labor that ranks with the best ever produced during this country.” —Pete Hamill
 
“Samuel Johnson acknowledged he was hoping God may imagine he had made strong use of his God-given skills. Jules Feiffer desire don't have any dread of such an audit. He got here into this global able to doing a laugh and mesmerizing issues with either language and drawing tools. He has used those presents as a loyal and tireless servant of humankind. What has made his companies so welcome for therefore a long time now's his ownership, as well as excessive intelligence, of whatever no hypocrite or egomaniac may declare, that's a humane feel of humor.” —Kurt Vonnegut
 
“Jules Feiffer, prolific hand and eye in the back of such a lot of outstanding comics, screenplays, novels, [and] illustrations . . . continues to be one of many signature voices of a protracted period of yank satire and dissent, the bridge from Lenny Bruce to the Simpsons.” —Jonathan Lethem
 
“Jules Feiffer was once one in all (if no longer) the 1st of the early writer/artists to emerge from the comedian booklet ghetto into the literary/art world.” —Will Eisner