From 2008: Jules Feiffer is one of comics’ great characters himself. He famously got his start with Will Eisner, creating and drawing a children’s strip called “Clifford” and eventually writing during the last years of “The Spirit”’s original run in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Besides his long-running strip “Feiffer,” he might be best-known for his children’s work, from illustrating "The Phantom Tollbooth" and writing the original screenplay for the Robin Williams film, "Popeye."