In 1971 Feiffer proposed to teach a course at Hampshire College that sought to relate representative American cartoonists, writers, playwrights, and comics—including Bob Hope—to the times in which they worked. Hampshire had opened the previous year as an experimental school boasting no grades and an unorthodox curriculum to encourage students’ self-directed explorations. Although the course never took place, Feiffer, who never attended college, later taught writing at Yale Drama School and Southampton College.