More of a cartoonist than a writer, Feiffer is nonetheless an intriguing and important American voice. Most famous for his long running cartoons in the Village Voice, which have been collected several times, and display a highly literate, sardonic and even cynical view of American society, he has also written several plays and screenplays.
His cartoons, which began in the Eisenhower era, were ascerbic commentaries on the society and political environment that Feiffer observed, and he skewered the politicians and mores of both the left and right. Together with Walt Kelly, whose career preceded and overlapped his, they turned the comic strip into a vehicle for social and political commentary not only with wit and humor, but with literate sardonicism.
