New
spot illustration for the media column in the Chicago Reader. I had
less than a day turnaround for this one. The article discusses the new
state of media and marketing compared to those of the past.
With
the current state of media, things can become an overnight
international sensation. "Fame hasn’t spread so swiftly since the early
15th century, when Joan of
Arc was an anonymous peasant one day and leader of the French army
against the English approximately the next."
"May I think of it this way? Joan of Arc was burned at the stake to
the applause of priests who found it intolerable that anyone, much less a
teenage girl, could claim to be speaking directly with God. If tomorrow
our heretical grocer is not only peddling his carrots on the internet
but directly entertaining his customer base with a brief discourse on
root crops —well, the daily paper he no longer needs will be in no
position to put him to the torch."
Read the full article
here.
A new illustration for The Chicago Reader about what's really going on in the primary elections. You can check out the article
here. Big thanks to Jennifer McLaughlin and Paul Higgins for the gig!
New poster for Lynyrd Skynyrd as part of the Celebrate Virginia Live summer series.
New poster for The Band Perry. This is the first of this years Celebrate Virgina Live summer series posters, so there will be plenty more to come. These will eventually be screen-printed, hopefully with some glow-in-the-dark ink for the lightning bugs.
Here's an opening spread and full page illustration for Malibu Magazine. The article discusses the power and presence of the conservative class in an area typically viewed as being very liberal. The first image references the Friend's Of Abe, an organization of conservatives in the film industry that meet semi-secretly to discuss politics, in fear of facing prejudice and losing work due to their beliefs and ideals. Thanks to AD Julian Chavez for the gig.
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