Remembering Jules Feiffer, March 6, 2025 at 7pm EST
A Will Eisner Week Special Event. Online only.
A special meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Thursday, March 6, 2025 at 7 pm EST. ONLINE PRESENTATION VIA ZOOM. Please email comicssymposium@gmail.com to register for this event. Free and open to the public.
Remembering Great Comic Book* Hero Jules Feiffer [*and many other things] A Will Eisner Week Special Event. Online only.
Starting as an assistant to the legendary Will Eisner on The Spirit, through his “Feiffer” syndicated strip, to his groundbreaking history, “The Great Comic Book Heroes,” to movies like “Carnal Knowledge” and “Popeye,” to his “Kill My Mother” graphic novel trilogy, to his many children’s books, JULES FEIFFER, who passed away in January at 95, was a true titan in a wide array of media. Remembering Feiffer’s life and career today is a panel of Feiffer friends and admirers , including PETER KUPER (Insectopolis), PAUL LEVITZ (Will Eisner: Champion of the Graphic Novel), MORT GERBERG (New Yorker cartoonist), N.C. CHRISTOPHER COUCH (UMass Amherst), KAREN GREEN (Columbia University Graphic Novel Librarian), and DANNY FINGEROTH (Will Eisner Studios).
N.C. Christopher Couch is the author of numerous books and articles on graphic novels and comic art, including The Will Eisner Companion (with Stephen Weiner) and Will Eisner: A Retrospective (with Peter Myer). He was senior editor at Kitchen Sink Press (Northampton), where he served as Eisner’s editor, and has taught at Amherst, Columbia, Hampshire, Haverford, Smith and Mount Holyoke Colleges, and the School of Visual Arts.
Danny Fingeroth is a popular culture historian and commentator who conducted numerous interviews with Jules Feiffer. Danny was a longtime editor and writer at Marvel and is Chair of Will Eisner Week, the annual worldwide celebration of Feiffer’s mentor. He’s the author of A Marvelous Life: The Amazing Story of Stan Lee (St. Martin’s Press/Macmillan, 2019) and Jack Ruby: The Many Faces of Oswald’s Assassin (Chicago Review Press, 2023).
Mort Gerberg is a multi-genre cartoonist/writer best-known for his cartoons in the New Yorker and Playboy and his Cartooning: The Art and Business, the most respected instruction/reference book in the field for the past 36 years. He was voted Best Magazine Cartoonist of 2007 and 2008 by the National Cartoonist Society and given its Gold Key in 2022, installing him in the NCS Hall of Fame.
Karen Green is Curator for Comics and Cartoons at Columbia University. Since 2005 she has been instrumental in building a collection and archive that now includes the original art and papers of Chris Claremont, Al Jaffee, Howard Cruse, Jerry Robinson, S. Clay Wilson, Wendy and Richard Pini, and Kitchen Sink Press, among others. Karen is highly active and visible at comics conferences and conventions, has been a judge for the Eisner Awards and the Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Cartooning, and she co-produced the documentary She Makes Comics (2014).
Peter Kuper is a regular contributor to The New Yorker,The Nation, and Mad magazine where he writes and illustrates Spy vs. Spy. He is the co-founder and co-editor of World War 3 Illustrated, and teaches cartooning at Harvard University. His graphic novel Insectopolis will be published in May.
Paul Levitz is the author of Will Eisner: Champion of the Graphic Novel (Abrams), published The Spirit Archives and several of Eisner’s graphic novels while publisher of DC Comics. He is a member of the Eisner Hall of Fame for his contributions to comics as a writer, editor and executive.
