Jules Feiffer, the cartoonist, playwright, author, and satirist, has passed away at his home in upstate New York at the age of 95.

Feiffer started his career as a teenager working for Will Eisner as a shop assistant in 1946. Soon, Feiffer was working with Eisner on scripts for The Spirit. From there, he became a staff cartoonist at The Village Voice producing the weekly comic strip, Feiffer which ran until 1997. In 1997, Feiffer created the first op-ed page comic strip for the New York Times which ran until 2000.

Feiffer was a prolific writer with over 35 books, plays, and screenplays.

He is also the winner of numerous awards including the George Polk Award for his cartoons, an Academy Award for his animated short Munro, and a Pulitzer Price for political cartoons in 1986. He was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2004, received the National Cartoonists Society’s Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004, the Creativity Foundation’s Laureate in 2006 and a a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Writers Guild of America in 2010.

Our thoughts go out to his family, friends, and fans.