Editor Greg Letson has returned to Red Car, formerly his editing home from 2000 to ’05. At Hooligan for the past year, Letson was at Fluid before that.
Asked what drew him back to Red Car, Letson explained, “It was a no-brainer, between Larry’s intelligent vision and Mary’s acumen for managing talent,” the references being to Red Car founder/editor Larry Bridges and Red Car New York managing director Mary Knox.
Letson’s work has spanned many styles and genres over the past two-and-a-half decades, from visual storytelling to documentary-style, dramatic dialogue, VFX and comedy. In 2008 he won the AICE Award for outstanding creative editorial in the Public Service category for his work on a PSA titled “Train” for the Library of Congress via the Ad Council.
“Greg’s a tremendous creative resource for all of us at Red Car, not just for his agency clients,” said Bridges. “His curiosity and passion for creative expression, as well as the wide range of contacts and influences he brings to his work every day, are assets we value highly.”
Recent clients and projects Letson has edited include broadcast campaigns for Campbell’s for BBDO, New York City’s Montefiore Hospital and Liberty Bank for agency Cronin & Co., Publix Supermarkets for agency 22squared, Subway for McCarthy Mambro Bertino, and Clamato for mcgarrybowen.
In addition to Letson, the Red Car New York roster includes editors Deirdre Bell, Michael Coletta, Charlie Cusumano, Jonathan Edwards, Paula Halton, Keith Olwell and Josh Towvim, along with creative director Chris Bialkowski and animation director Crankbunny. All are available nationally through the Red Car offices in Dallas, Chicago and Los Angeles.
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