This week’s new issue of Mountain Xpress (the local alt-weekly paper for Asheville, NC) features another cover illustration from me. I was tasked to come up with a concept to illustrate the story about the history of the monuments located in an old local church. This assignment was tricky, because the Confederate […]
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This week’s new issue of Mountain Xpress (the local alt-weekly paper for Asheville, NC) features another cover illustration from me. I was tasked to come up with a concept to illustrate the story about the vast amount of election campaign contributions for the two local district representatives that come from […]
Available today, in the usual places, is the new issue of the Asheville Alt-Weekly paper, The Mountain Xpress. This week’s issue feature a cover with my illustration, conceived and created for cover story about the multiplicity of local breweries in the area. Here is the drawing as submitted, before the […]
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 […]
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 […]
A recent Twitter tweet about a Facebook post about making fun of the evergreen topic about current residents complaining about how Asheville isn’t like it used to be, caused me to remember a cartoon I did on the very same subject, and that caused me to realize that said cartoon […]
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 […]