Jules Feiffer, ‘Phantom Tollbooth’ Cartoonist, Dead at 95

Jules Feiffer, the cartoonist known for his satirical comic Feiffer and his screenplays, is dead at 95. His wife, JZ Holden, confirmed to the New York Times that he died of congestive heart failure. A Pulitzer Prize winner, Feiffer’s work satirized postwar anxieties among the neurotic New York set. “With his obsession with politics and psychology, his wry wit and stylized drawings, he’s the link from Lenny Bruce to Larry David, from Walt Kelly and James Thurber to Garry Trudeau and Art Spiegelman,” Michiko Kakutani wrote in 2010. Feiffer won his Pulitzer in 1986 for Editorial Cartooning in The Village Voice, where his cartoon Feiffer ran from…