The cartoonist and author Jules Feiffer, who has died aged 95, was the recording angel of postwar America’s angst: that last five-letter word being possibly the shortest in his vocabulary but entirely in character. As the US lay on the couch, Feiffer sat beside the patient, pencil and notebook in hand.
The artist’s surname itself came to denote a particular attitude to life, so in the end it was deemed sufficient to call his best-known strip Feiffer (it had started life as Sick Sick Sick).
