Matt Factor has exited the New York office of bicoastal/international Propaganda Films. Staffer Tara Ford, who had teamed with Factor to cover the East Coast, now solely handles the territory for the company. Philip Fox Mills remains East Coast rep for bicoastal/international Satellite, a sister shop to Propaganda. Ford and Mills continue to work closely with Dana Balkin, head of sales for the Propaganda group of companies….Richard Fink of Fink Tank, New York, has taken on East Coast representation for Los Angeles-based Original Film….Tombo, the Hollywood-based shop headed by executive producer Fred Porter, has secured Gabrielle Giebels and Catherine De Angelis—a.k.a. Hot Betty—for Midwest representation. Terri Montgomery continues to rep Tombo in such central Midwest states as Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri and Iowa….Highway 61, New York, has signed Adam Fine of LittleRedHen Entertainment, Santa Monica, for West Coast representation….Wow+Flutter Music+Sound, Los Angeles and Minneapolis, has named Los Angeles-based independent rep Jennifer Cohen to head up West Coast sales….Lankford Films, Houston, has signed Perry Schaffer and Corey Rogers of Schaffer & Co., New York, for East Coast sales, and Doug Stieber and Lynn Mutchler of Doug Stieber & Company, Chicago, to handle the Midwest….
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