Brilliant and creative to the last of his 95 years (January 26, 1929-January 17, 2025), author of 35-plus books, plays, and screenplays, winner of a Pulitzer Prize and an Academy Award, all of Feiffer’s work was infused with social and political satire of the highest order.

In this interview he acknowledges that his goal was no less than the overthrow of the government and that the technique he employed was to make complex ideas readily accessible and, like Fred Astaire’s dancing, make the difficult seem easy.

A staunch opponent of authoritarianism, he has been taken from us just as we need him the most.