The Mill has announced that the Camp๏ฌre team has joined Mill+ in New York.
For over 12 years, Camp๏ฌre has developed Emmy, Cannes Lion and Clio-winning immersive experiences to launch new products and entertainment franchises. While Camp๏ฌre’s founders originally gained notoriety for producing The Blair Witch Project, the team has gone on to create successful programs for HBO’s Westworld, Game of Thrones and True Blood, Amazon’s The Man in the High Castle, National Geographic’s He Named Me Malala and more.
Campfire is comprised of Mike Monello, Steve Coulson, Nick Braccia and Mike Knowlton. Their client roster for strategic and creative services includes Amazon, HBO, Disney, Diageo, In๏ฌniti, Net๏ฌix, Hulu, Harley-Davidson, Showtime, Verizon, Audi and Ubisoft.
Monello said, “The combination of The Mill’s artistry and talent with our team’s strategic and conceptual expertise is a compelling offering for clients looking to make an impact.”
Barry Parkhill, managing director of The Mill in New York added, “We are thrilled to welcome Campfire to The Mill. The team are world-class experience-makers and their arrival marks a hugely exciting time in the evolution of Mill+. Campfire bring a truly unique creative and strategic perspective to their work, and I am looking forward to introducing the team and their capabilities to our ever-growing roster of advertising, entertainment and technology clients.”
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