Jules Feiffer, acerbic cartoonist, author and more, dies at 95

Around 1980, the film producer Robert Evans hired Mr. Feiffer to write the screenplay for Robert Altman’s “Popeye.” Mr. Feiffer modeled his script on Segar’s journalism, not the Fleischer brothers’ graphic adaptations of the 1930s and ’40s. When E.C. Segar’s daughter saw the film, Mr. Feiffer told The Comics Journal in 1988, she called to tell him that she had taken the significance of her father’s creation — at the time, said Mr. Feiffer added, and he cried. Although it was met with mixed critical reactions, the film, starring Robin Williams as Popeye and Shelley Duvall as Olive Oyl, was a hit.

In “Popeye”, Mr. Feiffer met his second wife, Jenny Allen, who was a reporter for Life magazine at the time and became a playwright, comedian and monologist. They divorced in 2014. (His first marriage, to publisher Judy Sheftel, also ended in divorce.) Mr. Feiffer married Ms. Holden, a freelance writer, in 2016.

In addition to his wife, he is survived by his daughter Kate Feiffer, a children’s book author with whom he worked; Halley Feiffer, playwright and actress; Julie Feiffer, farmer and marketer in Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.; and two granddaughters.

In May 1997, Mr. Feiffer ended his association with The Village Voice over a salary dispute. “It’s not like I’m slipping,” he said at the time. “I’m too expensive.” (In April 2008, he returned for a full-page cover story on Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.)

Later in life he took great pleasure in writing and drawing children’s drawings, some of which he collaborated with his daughter Kate, including “The Man in the Ceiling” ( 1993), “Bark, George” (1999), “By the Side of the Road” (2002), “The Daddy Mountain” (2004) and “A Room with a Zoo” (2005). A 2010 reunion project with Mr. Juster, “The Odious Ogre,” was well reviewed.