The creative team of Andy Hann and Andrew Kobliska has joined Click Entertainment, an entertainment and marketing division of Click 3X. Hann comes aboard as head of creative while Kobliska assumes the role of executive producer, marketing & brand strategy. The pair joins from Bigsmack where Hann was known for crafting promos for networks like A&E, National Geographic Channel, Discovery Channel and OWN. Hann has tackled everything from directing, writing and art direction for TV, print, outdoor, digital, radio and product packaging. Hann was responsible for the launch of the GameShow Network and the FOX Family Channel. Kobliska has acumen in creative, production, marketing, advertising and brand management, and 20-plus years of experience under his belt. Kobliska has worked for agencies, high-end postproduction studios and startups, winning several awards along the way and even opened his own production company, Gravy….Directors Ivan Grbovic and Henry Moore Selder have joined Cap Gun Collective for U.S. representation. A native of Montreal, Grbovic saw his 2012 feature debut Romeo Eleven win awards at several international film festivals, and notably, nominations for Best Film, Best Direction, Best Screenplay, Best Actor and Best Editing in Canada’s prestigious Jutra Awards last year. The Olympic spots he directed for Rona in 2010 marked his first major successes in the commercial world, and since then, he has worked with many ad agencies and brands, including Bank of America and Harley Davidson, while also continuing to direct music videos and developing original feature films. Based in Stockholm, Selder was a key factor in the emergence of the StyleWar collective as a directorial ensemble. As part of that collective, he directed high-profile spots for the likes of Audi, Nike, Pepsi, Mastercard and Mercedes-Benz, shooting in remote and urban locations across North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Scandinavia. After 10 years as part of StyleWar, he now returns to his roots as a solo director. His short films include the 30-minute sci-fi film entitled A Living Soul currently appearing on the international film festival circuit….Marisa Fiechter has joined Psyop’s NY office as executive producer. She had most recently been at MPC. Fiechter got her start at agency Hill Holliday before joining Trollback+Company in 2005. She later spent a year at Google Creative Lab prior to coming aboard MPC….Figliulo&Partners has hired Jon Randazzo as creative director. He is responsible for leading all of Figliulo&Partners’ creative activity for the Sprint business and is located in the agency’s New York office. Randazzo most recently worked as creative director for Goodby Silverstein and Partners. He has many accolades including Cannes Lions, Effies and The Yahoo! Big Idea Chair Award….
Jules Feiffer, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Cartoonist and Writer, Dies At 95
Jules Feiffer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and writer whose prolific output ranged from a long-running comic strip to plays, screenplays and children's books, died Friday. He was 95 and, true to his seemingly tireless form, published his last book just four months ago.
Feiffer's wife, writer JZ Holden, said Tuesday that he died of congestive heart failure at their home in Richfield Springs, New York, and was surrounded by friends, the couple's two cats and his recent artwork.
Holden said her husband had been ill for a couple of years, "but he was sharp and strong up until the very end. And funny."
Artistically limber, Feiffer hopscotched among numerous forms of expression, chronicling the curiosity of childhood, urban angst and other societal currents. To each he brought a sharp wit and acute observations of the personal and political relations that defined his readers' lives.
As Feiffer explained to the Chicago Tribune in 2002, his work dealt with "communication and the breakdown thereof, between men and women, parents and children, a government and its citizens, and the individual not dealing so well with authority."
Feiffer won the United States' most prominent awards in journalism and filmmaking, taking home a 1986 Pulitzer Prize for his cartoons and "Munro," an animated short film he wrote, won a 1961 Academy Award. The Library of Congress held a retrospective of his work in 1996.
"My goal is to make people think, to make them feel and, along the way, to make them smile if not laugh," Feiffer told the South Florida Sun Sentinel in 1998. "Humor seems to me one of the best ways of espousing ideas. It gets people to listen with their guard down."
Feiffer was born on Jan. 26, 1929, in the Bronx. From... Read More