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    At press time, word was that the Joint Policy Committee of the 4As and ANA was about to file charges with the National Labor Relations Board, alleging that SAG and AFTRA have refused to bargain in good faith for a new commercials contract, and that the unions have engaged in unfair labor practices regarding nonunion and union performers who choose to work on U.S. spots during the strike. Stay tunedA.Cheryl Berman, chief creative officer of Chicago-headquartered Leo Burnett, U.S.A., and Jim Ferguson, president and chief creative officer of Young & Rubicam, New York, have been named judges for the Cannes 2000 Film Competition. As the two American agency judges of film entries, Berman and Ferguson join a Cannes contingent that consists of 22 ad industry notables, headed by film jury president Marcelo Serpa, creative director and co-CEO of agency Almap/BBDO, So Paulo, Brazil. Serpa also presides over the press & poster jury. Additionally, Tim Smith, CEO of Red Sky Interactive, San Francisco, has been named president of Cannes Cyber Lions jury, which will judge Web site and banner entriesA.Director Noam Murro and executive producer Shawn Lacy Tessaro, who recently came aboard Stiefel + Company, Santa Monica, are opening their own shop in Hollywood. Completion of the as-yet-unnamed ventures Hollywood digs is slated for the summer. Frank Stiefel, who heads Stiefel + Company, will serve in a managerial consulting role for commercials to Murros and Tessaros new houseA.Carol Case has resigned from her managing directors post at bicoastal Original FilmA.No Prisoners, the Los Angeles-based production house headed by president/managing director Bruce Martin, has signed comedy director Tony Diamond for exclusive spot representation. Diamond, a USC Film School grad, recently scored a coup when Los Angeles-headquartered IFILM chose his spec Got Milk? commercial to run on its entertainment Web site (SHOOT, 3/24, p. 1)A.

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    Jules Feiffer, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Cartoonist and Writer, Dies At 95

    Tuesday, January 21, 2025

    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

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