Jules Feiffer was an American Cartoonist and author, who at one time was considered the most widely read satirist in the country. He died on Jan. 26, in Richfield Springs, NY. He was 95.

He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for editorial cartooning, and in 2004, he was inducted  into the Comic Book Hall of Fame. He wrote the animated short, “Munro,” which won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1961. The Library of Congress recognized his “remarkable legacy,” from 1946 to the present, as a cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter, book author, illustrator, and art instructor.

Best known, perhaps for his work at The Village Voice, he produced the weekly comic strip titled “Feiffer” until 1997, and then appeared regularly in publications here and abroad. In 1997, he created the first op-ed-page comic strip for The New York Times, which ran monthly until 2000.

Mr. Feiffer wrote more than 35 books, plays and screenplays. In 1979, he created his first graphic novel. By 1993, he began writing and illustrating books aimed at young readers, with several of them winning awards. He began writing for the theater and film in 1961. He earned a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Dramatist’s Guild.

Mr. Feiffer said that cartoons were his first interest when young. He said that because he couldn’t write well enough to be a writer, or draw well enough to be an artist, he realized that the best way to succeed would be to combine his limited talents in each of those fields to create something unique.”