Trevor King has joined RSA as its East Coast sales rep. King will be responsible for all East Coast sales exclusively for RSA. This is a new role at RSA which previously was repped by executive producer Philip Fox-Mills in conjunction with Uncle Lefty. King was born and raised in Los Angeles, attended Columbia University and began his career in TV commercial production. After working with numerous production companies as a PA and coordinator, he moved on to the world of post as a producer at Spontaneous. King transitioned into the sales rep/head of sales chair at BlueRock and after three years opened independent repping shop, Kingdom, where he looked after Reginaldo, Mad River and Robot Repair. In 2007, King went back in-house at Click 3X….Boutique commercial production studio CoMPANY has signed independent rep firm The Standard Society–headed by Katy Richter and Heather Guillen–to handle the Midwest. CoMPANY’s directorial roster includes Larry Frey, Fred Goss, John Grammatico, Brendan Heath, David McNally, Alex Ogus, Harry Patramanis, Jeff Thomas, Harald Zwart and the Coen Brothers….Bicoastal music shop Butter Music and Sound has secured Marla Mossberg of MBW Represents to handle the West Coast. Butter recently opened its West Coast office in Venice, Calif., led by executive producer Marcus Nelson….Design-based production company King and Country (K&C) has signed with SuperPowers reps Angelina Powers and K.C. Gulino for East Coast commercial representation. Powers launched her independent sales company in 2011, bringing more than 15 years of sales experience in the advertising industry, especially within the realms of production and post. Gulino joined forces with Powers in 2013 to form SuperPowers Representation. K&C was established in 2006 by directors Rick Gledhill and Efrain Montanez and executive producer Jerry Torgerson….
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