ABSTRACT
In his cartoons, plays, novels and screenplays, Jules Feiffer creates a satirical landscape of urban America, its inhabitants neurotically absorbed in post-Freudian struggles with "relationships" and daily survival. David and Rhoda (Davis) Feiffer, his parents, immigrated to the United States from Poland as teenagers and raised their son in the Bronx, New York and the city so central to his work and in which he was born on January 26, 1929. Jules Feiffer etches his corrosive portrait of American society through a variety of satirical forms, all of them linked by the nature of the characters who inhabit them. Feiffer's America is instantly recognizable and preeminently urban, its citizens educated, middle class and neurotic, its geographical and satiric locale firmly established as New York City. Feiffer's men and women analyze themselves to death, perpetually taking their mental temperatures as their relationships hurtle to-ward disaster.
