Knox Avenue, the downtown Los Angeles-based production company headed by founder/executive producer Brooke Dooley, has secured Yvette Lubinsky of independent representation firm Yvette Reps to handle sales on the West Coast….Artist management agency RIAD Represents, led by founder Sherry Riad, has broadened its roster of talent to include digital communications shop the STUDIO. Under the aegis of company president Mary Nittolo, the STUDIO, which is based in New York City, specializes in 2D and 3D animation, graphic design, digital content, character development and strategic thinking. The STUDIO’s clients include major advertising agencies such as TBWA, FCB, The Burns Group, Saatchi & Saatchi, Publicis, mcgarrybowen, DePirro/Garrone, Goodby Silverstein & Partners, MomentumWW, Young & Rubicam, Walton Isaacson, Euro, Digitas, Grey, and BBDO; and brands like Chase, Verizon, Pfizer, Pepsi, Sony, Kraft Foods, Colgate, Novartis, Avon, Bacardi, Starbucks, Turner Broadcasting, GE, Best Buy and Target department stores. Additionally, RIAD has added to its staff Rose Wind Jerome as an agent, responsible for new business development for the company’s talent lineup, which includes such artists as photographers Michele Asselin, Thierry Des Fontaines, Troy House, Shaniqwa Jarvis, Keena, Michael Prince, Joe Windsor-Williams and Bil Zelman, along with the newest addition, the STUDIO. Prior to joining RIAD, Jerome was the program associate at The Center for Photography at Woodstock in Woodstock, New York….Austrian cinematographer Christian Berger, who’s handled by Dattner Dispoto and Associates, is shooting director Angelina Jolie’s By The Sea. Additionally, Dattner Dispoto and Associates has signed production designers Ariana Nakata and Carl Swanberg….
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