For the second year in a row, the local alt-weekly for Asheville, Mountain Xpress, has put out a “humor” issue that features many parodic and satirical articles and features, in addition to the normal, serious ones that appear otherwise. For the second year in a row, I was asked to […]
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Today’s new weekly issue of the Asheville, NC Mountain Xpress alt-weekly paper shows my commissioned cover illustration of all three Buncombe County sheriff candidates vying for the job. If the signs confuse you, know that they are based on the verbiage on the actual signs displayed by the candidates. Actual […]
Another article on the food service industry in Asheville by the local alt-weekly, The Mountain Xpress, gave me another opportunity to create an illustration to go with the article. The focus this time, was on the rampant substance abuse problem inherent in the industry. As part of the usual process, […]
Local alt-weekly paper, The Mountain Xpress in Asheville, commissioned this illustration to go with their upcoming article addressing the problem of sexual harassment in the local food and beverage service industry. This was the version used, modified from a finished version I had submitted with a female server dressed in […]
Happy Doctor’s Day! These seven doctor’s were presented with these digital caricatures I was commissioned by their clinic to draw for them as a surprise gift for the day. Here is a collage of the final inked versions and a smaller collage of the initial pencil sketches. Here are a […]
Out today is a new issue of the Asheville, NC alt-weekly paper, The Mountain Xpress. If you pick one up, you can have an original newsprint-quality print of the artwork I did for the cover. Inside is also an illustration for the local version parody of Dicken’s “A Christmas Carol” with […]
On Sunday, October 14, 2017, I spent a lovely autumn day in the quaint and picturesque town of Highlands, NC amongst the influx of leaf-gazing tourists and was on had at Kelsey-Hutchinson Founders Park to take part in the 3rd Annual Cashiers-Highlands Humane Society Forever Family Reunion. Here are a […]
Another cover assignment from the Asheville paper, The Mountain Xpress, and this time it was more cartoony. It required much going on in one illustration to show the intended happy use of the the Greenway and Blueway aspirations that the nearby town of Woodfin has for building such a destination. […]
The Asheville Mountain Xpress paper contacted me to do another cover illustration. This time, not a humorous, cartoon approach, but something to reflect the story inside about the many monuments, and streets in the city named after, or memorializing figures from the city’s confederate past. This was the cover that […]
2016 got such a bad rap that it was a popular joke to cheer its demise. I used that prevalent sentiment when commissioned by the Asheville Mountain Xpress to come up with a new year’s issue cover illustration. Here is the original, finished cover art, before the text was added: […]