"Feiffer was America's premier satirical cartoonist,"
"the artist who best captured the tone and timbre of American public rhetoric and private anxiety from the time of Dwight Eisenhower to Bill Clinton."
"He often balanced political contempt with human sympathy."
"[S]haking the cage is what I found myself drifting into doing, and finding I had no choice but to do that because I was living in a country that scared the shit out of me in terms of the direction it was going. And if you ask me how I changed the country, we"
Many influential figures died in 2025, including writers, editors, activists, and satirical artist Jules Feiffer. Their words provide testimony to ongoing struggles for decency, democracy, liberty, and equality in the United States and globally. Jules Feiffer emerged as America's premier satirical cartoonist who captured public rhetoric and private anxiety from the Eisenhower era through Bill Clinton. Feiffer balanced political contempt with human sympathy and learned to see the world through unsympathetic eyes. He described himself as compelled to 'shake the cage' while living in a country whose direction frightened him, connecting mid-century McCarthyism and contemporary Trump-era fears. Their legacies offer inspiration and guidance.
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