Another cover story I was asked to illustrate for the local Alt-Weekly Asheville paper, The Mountain Xpress, was this one about an upcoming vote on local bonds that would be used to fund greenways and preserve open space, as well as for affordable housing. I was given some ideas they […]
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The local alt-weekly paper, The Mountain Xpress, in Asheville has once again seen fit to commission my art for one of their cover stories. This one seeks to illustrate the concepts in the article regarding the efforts of those both outside the area and inside, mostly non-profits, trying to provide […]
For me, drawing caricatures at a birthday party is not a new thing, but this particular gig I was hired to do proved to be a new experience. I was tasked with drawing all the party guests (or at least as many as could fit) in the same caricature with […]
Pick up this year’s annual January “Humor Issue” of Mountain Xpress to see: my cover illustration of the metaphorical marathon of getting from January 2021 to here; my usual weekly cartoon; my annual two-page spread of local-themed comic strips using parodies of famous comic strips; the other features that get […]
Be sure to pick up this week’s annual “Humor Issue” of Mountain Xpress in Asheville and surrounding areas. I was allowed, once again, to illustrate the cover. Here’s the cover with and without the text in pre and published form: Also I was as well asked to again draw a […]
With the corona virus still raging, I’ve had to turn down new caricature gigs for large gatherings. However, I still had one event that I had agreed to back in September 2019, and though it was rescheduled from the original date of July 2020, it finally happened on December 12, […]
As the holiday season starts up, I only had time to participate in two daily Coronacatures for the month of November. Here are the finished results and reference photos for my take on John Goodman (star of the Flintstones movie, as he would look in actual cartoon form as Fred […]
Another cover illustration opportunity for the alt-weekly Asheville paper, The Mountain Xpress came up recently, and I was able to provide this requested autumn scene of squirrel families safely enjoying the Thanksgiving holidays in separate “pods” to keep them safe from the current cover-19 virus situation. Here is the illustration […]
This week’s new issue of the alt-weekly Asheville Mountain Xpress paper features a new cover illustration by me. The paper needed a humorous cover design to accompany the cover story about local social-distancing mandates that have become “The New Normal” due to the worldwide Cover-19 pandemic. It was also requested […]
As was the case in 2018 and 2019, the local alt-weekly paper in Asheville, The Mountain Xpress, expressed a desire for me to once again create a local-themed cover illustration for what has become an annual “humor” issue for the paper. The centerpiece was decided to be the nearly 100 […]