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    Greg Kiernan Joins The Cutting Vision

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    By ELIZABETH MICHAELSON

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    Greg Kiernan has joined New York-based The Cutting Vision as a senior editor. For the past 12 years, Kiernan was an editor/partner at 30 Second Street Editorial, Albuquerque, N.M.

    While at 30 Second, Kiernans credits included Bounce Fabric Softeners Sensitive Side via DMB&B, Toronto; Slim Jims Macho Boy for North Castle Partners, Stamford, Conn.; and Silhouettes, Family Portrait and Generations for Childrens Advil out of Young & Rubicam, New York.

    Kiernan graduated from the University of Arizona in 81 with a B.F.A. in radio and television production. Until 88, he was at Major League Baseball Productions, then based in New York. According to Kiernan, he edited the gamut of programs from documentaries to online programming to national spots. He has online edited the documentaries Understanding Weather and Understanding Skyscrapers, both for The Learning Channel, as well as PBS Whose Home on the Range.

    About his cross-country move, Kiernan explained, Id done everything that I could with the company in New Mexico, and it was time for a change and to get back into the real world again. He added, Jeff [Beckerman, The Cutting Visions owner/president/senior editor] and I have been friends for about five years, and it just became more apparent that it would be a good fit.

    Kiernan comes from a long line of television professionals. My entire family is in television and has been for three generations. My grandfather is actually in the Museum of Broadcasting announcing VE Day! He-Walter Kiernan-was the host of several game shows. My parents actually met at a radio station. His siblings are also in related fields. Kiernan laughed, We all said we were never going to go into this business!

    Junior editor Mona Lu rounds out the full-time staff at The Cutting Vision. Executive producer Susan Schulson handles sales for the shop.

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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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