Oct 21: JULES FEIFFER: A CONVERSATION

JULES FEIFFER: A CONVERSATION

• Wednesday, October 21, 2020
• 6:30 PM- 8:30 PM
• https://www.improvconferencenola.com/jules-feiffer-a-conversation/2020/10/21/jules-feiffer-a-conversation-virtual-world-premiere-amp-panel-discussion

World Premiere & Live Panel Discussion

Jules Feiffer is an American legend, whom the Library of Congress has recognized for his "remarkable legacy" as a cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter, adult and children's book author, illustrator, and art instructor. Feiffer's Pulitzer-winning comic strip ran for forty-two years in the Village Voice, revolutionizing the notion of what a mainstream cartoonist might dare to address in print.

Join us for an intimate filmed portrait of the legendary cartoonist, screenwriter and author JULES FEIFFER in conversation with Michael Tisserand, author of Krazy: George Herriman, A Life in Black and White. In the film, the 91 year old Feiffer looks back over his extraordinary life and long, varied career, offering his opinions and views on arts, culture, politics and improvisation — central to his work.

The screening is followed by a live panel discussion of leading cartoonists. Moderated by Michael Tisserand, panelists include award winning cartoonist for The New Yorker Liza Donnelly, Hulu's Woke co-creator and cartoonist Keith Knight, and POLITICO cartoonist Matt Wuerker.

Screening 6:30PM (CST) followed by live panel discussion. This event is FREE. Pre-registration is required. Register HERE. Upon registration, you will receive access to both the screening and post discussion. NOTE: This film is for mature audiences only and contains strong language that may be unsuitable for children or young adults. 

PANELISTS

LIZA DONNELLY

Liza Donnelly is an award winning cartoonist and writer for The New Yorker, The New York Times, Medium, CBS News and CNN. An innovator of a form of visual journalism, covering news and cultural events by digitally drawing them in real time, Donnelly travels globally speaking on freedom of speech and women's rights and served as a U.S. State Department cultural envoy. She delivered a popular TED talk that was translated into 38 languages and received 1.4 million views online. The author of 17 books; her latest, Women on Men was a finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor.

Oct 6, 2020

KEITH KNIGHT

Keith Knight is an award winning artist/cartoonist, whose comic strips include The Knight Life, (th)ink, and The K Chronicles. He is the co-creator of the Hulu comedy series Woke, inspired by his life and work. Knight's work has appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post and MAD Magazine. Knight is also a rapper and a founding member of the "nerdcore hip-hop band" the Marginal Prophets.

Oct 1, 2020

MICHAEL TISSERAND

Michael Tisserand is a New Orleans-based author whose most recent book is Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White, the Eisner Award-winning biography of cartoonist George Herriman, creator of Krazy Kat. Tisserand's other books include The Kingdom of Zydeco and Sugarcane Academy: How a New Orleans Teacher and His Storm-Struck Students Created a School to Remember. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, the Oxford American, the Nation, Daily Beast and Lit Hub. He is currently working with director Jonathan Hock on a documentary about the life of George Herriman.

Oct 1, 2020

MATT WUERKER

Matt Wuerker is the staff cartoonist at POLITICO and was part of the team that launched the site in 2006. Over the past 40 years, the Pulitzer Prize winner's work has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post and The Christian Science Monitor to magazines such as Newsweek, The Nation and The Smithsonian — to name a few.

In 2010 he was awarded the Herblock Prize at the Library of Congress and later that year won the National Press Foundation's Berryman Award.

Oct 1, 2020

ABOUT JULES FEIFFER

Jules Feiffer is the author of a wide range of additional creative work, including the Obie Award-winning play Little Murders, the screenplay for Carnal Knowledge, and the Oscar-winning short animation, Munro. Other works include the plays Knock Knock (a Tony award nominee) and Grown-Ups; the novels Harry, the Rat with Women and Ackroyd; the screenplays Popeye and I Want to Go Home (winner of the best screenplay award at the Venice Film Festival); and the children's books The Man in the Ceiling, Bark, George and the illustrations for Which Puppy? by his daughter, Kate, and the children's classic The Phantom Tollbooth.