This one goes WAAAAY back… to 4th grade at Oregon Elementary School, Oregon, Wisconsin… And my favorite page by far: Always leave them wanting more! I haven’t improved as much as I thought since then… in fact I had been working for MAD for almost three years when I stopped using notebook paper for my pages. READ MORE
Clicky to embiggen… A couple of Sunday Mailbags ago I was asked about my work with The Marlin Company, which is the client I do all those “workplace posters” for I keep posting here. The above image is the very first one I ever did for them, done in traditional media using ink, Dr. Martin dyes and airbrush. I still do not know the exact year I did this, but I am guessing 2001 or 2002. READ MORE
I’m stealing a page from Facebook and will occasional do a “Throwback Thursday” feature here on the blog… but not adorable pictures of me as a toddler. Rather, I’ll try and post some really early work of mine.¬¨‚Ć This is my very first published magazine illustration. Yikes. Everything’s lumpy… This was circa 1991. I had been doing comic book pencils for NOW Comics for a year or two, and had freshly moved back to Minnesota from Atlanta when I received a phone call from Kyle Peterson, a friend of mine from art college. He had become an associate art director at MSP Communications, a local… READ MORE
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