George Herriman’s drawings are masterpieces of dramatic economy, achieving miracles of individuation and expression through body language and suggestive absences.
The audacious multimedia artist was an original who used a stuffed bald eagle — among an endless array of wittily repurposed objects — to challenge what an American work of art could be.
In 1973, as taxi workers picketed, their boss, Robert Scull, made a killing offering his Pop Art collection at auction, and Robert Rauschenberg was not happy. The Voice’s Alexander Cockburn covered the financial and personal fracas that went down that day.
In this remembrance of Jules Feiffer we reprint a 2018 interview with the Voice legend, who talked about the panoply of his characters that live on in film, on the stage, and in print and pixels.
