“To the ruling class, Larry Davis is society's nightmare, a horror-film monster who keeps coming back every time you think you’ve put him away for good. But to the powerless, Davis is a resistance fighter ... ”
We remember a former editor and executive who, during his time at the Voice, oversaw three Pulitzer prize-winning features — and kept Rupert Murdoch at bay.
In this remembrance of Jules Feiffer we reprint a 2018 interview with the Voice legend, who talked about the panoply of his characters that live on in film, on the stage, and in print and pixels.
In his monumental investigative piece from 1995, a longtime New Yorker contributor told Ledbetter, “the closest I ever got to a person of color was a young white fact-checker with dreads.”
