My most recent illustration for the local alt-weekly paper in Asheville, NC (The Mountain Xpress) was commissioned for the purpose of illustrating the cover story of housing costs driving employees (in this case, city police officers) out of the city they work in, to live in less-expensive outlying areas. Here […]
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For the umpteenth year in a row, I have been commissioned by the local alt-weekly paper in Asheville, The Mountain Xpress, to draw the cover to their humor issue, as well as provide six comic strips that take off on famous comics from the funnies in newspapers, but give them […]
This week’s issue of the local alt-weekly paper in Asheville, NC, The Mountain Xpress contains a story on local alcohol-free establishments, and I was commissioned to draw the cover for it. Here are some of my initial cover ideas, along with the art for the cover, and how the printed […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]