A growing Conspiracy has added to its production and post resources with the Chicago office bringing on board fashion, beauty and visual storytelling editor Kyle Howard, while New York-based narrative and Spanish speaking editor Namakula signs to the roster for Midwest representation. The company’s production team has also hired Alexis Jaworski as associate producer. Editor Howard joins from New York’s Moondog Edit. Howard has cut commercials for a host of fashion and beauty brands, including Victoria’s Secret and Avon, as well as blue chip companies like Ford, Pepsi, and State Farm. Since moving to Chicago he’s already breaking through to top local agencies FCB, Energy BBDO and R/GA. Editor Namakula cultivated her talents as a comedy writer and actor in the U.S., U.K., and Spain. Namakula became an integral part of the launch for London’s Final Cut New York. Past clients include McCann, DDB, mcgarrybowen, Spike Lee, Jaume Collett-Serra, Pierlica De Carlo, The MoMa, Coca-Cola, Smirnoff, and AT&T. Associate producer Jaworski started her post career at Beast Editorial and has a background in producing documentary film, and in arts and entertainment marketing. With a focus on branding, campaign strategy and media production, she has worked for local artistic organizations including Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, River North Dance Chicago, Joffrey Ballet, and Yellow Wing Productions….
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