The legendary editorial cartoonist Jules Feiffer passed away January 17, of congestive heart failure. He was 95 years old.

A renowned artist, Mr. Feiffer was once the most widely read satirist in the country. Coming on the scene when he was just 17, Mr. Feiffer got his start as the assistant to cartoonist Will Eisner, helping to write and illustrate Eisner's comic strips, including The Spirit, until breaking out on his own to become the staff cartoonist at The Village Voice, where he produced a weekly comic strip until 1997. 

In 1959 Mr. Feiffer's comic strips became nationally syndicated, with his ruminations on sex, politics, marriage, and violence snaring the attention of the wider populace. His work regularly appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the London Observer, The New Yorker, Playboy, Esquire, and The Nation, and in 1997 he created the first op-ed page comic strip for the New York Times, which ran monthly until 2000. 

Mr. Feiffer began writing for stage and screen in the 1960s, including his plays Little Murders, Feiffer's People, Grown Ups, and Knock Knock. The Passionella sequence of Bock and Harnick's musical The Apple Tree was inspired by Mr. Feiffer's graphic novel Passionella, And Other Stories, and Mr. Feiffer contributed to both engagements of the infamous revue Oh! Calcutta! For his theatrical efforts, he was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Dramatist's Guild.

In 1971 Mr. Feiffer wrote the screenplay for Carnal Knowledge, which was directed by Mike Nichols, and in 1980 he adapted the comic strip Popeye for the screen, as directed by Robert Altman. In all, Mr. Feiffer wrote more than 35 books, plays, and screenplays, in addition to his countless comic strips. 

Mr. Feiffer is survived by his wife, JZ Holden, and their three cats, Mimi, Jackson and Dezzdemona. At the time of his death, he was working on a visual memoir.