Client: The Hollywood Reporter
Art Director: Nicholas Brawley
For an opinion piece about the controversial Joker movie titled, “Why the 'Joker' Gun Violence Protests Miss the Mark.”
Client: Miami New Times
Art Director: Michael Campina
The psychological and emotional damage done to migrant children at Florida’s Homestead detention facility is detailed in this cover story.
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Client: The Hollywood Reporter
Art Director: Peter Cury
In the wake of the Disney/Fox merger, scion James Murdoch finds himself with no executive position and charting unknown waters as he looks to find his own path in the media landscape.
Client: Miami New Times
Art Director: Kristin Bjornsen
Due to climate change, Miami is already experiencing rising tides and coastal flooding. The Best of 2017 issue takes a playful look at a near future where the city is in a constant state of being underwater.
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Client: The Hollywood Reporter
Art Director: Nicholas Brawley
Trump as Rodney Dangerfield, for an article about conservative comedians. “I tell ya, I get no respect!”
Client: MAD Magazine
Art Director: Suzy Hutchinson
A vintage horror movie spoof, with puns supplied by the great MAD legend Dick DeBartolo.
Client: Seattle Met
Art Director: Jane Sherman
Dave Matthews continues to sell out shows and his albums debut at number one on the charts. So why can’t he get any respect?
Client: LA Weekly
Art Director: Darrick Rainey
I was honored to illustrate the momentous Best of 2016 issue, commemorating the election that we all just wanted to end.
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Client: Self-promotional
A portrait of friend and towering illustrator in the field, Roberto Parada, done for his interview with the Face the Truth podcast.
Client: Miami New Times
Art Director: Michael Campina
Portrait of Naika Venant, a young teenager who tragically broadcast her suicide live on Facebook after enduring extreme bullying and hellish foster home experiences.
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Client: MAD Magazine
Art Directors: Doug Thomson/Suzy Hutchinson
For MAD Magazine issue #5, celebrating the dumbest things of 2018. Rosy’s racist rant is immortalized here in this satiric explanation of what may have caused her career-ending meltdown.
Client: The Hollywood Reporter
Art Director: Christopher Hawkins
Disney CEO Bob Iger seeks to put the pieces together of troubled video content acquisition, Maker Studios.
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Client: Miami New Times
Art Director: Kristin Bjornsen
Cover story about the history of marijuana in Florida, timed to come out on 4/20, naturally.
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Client: Seattle Met
Art Director: Sara D’Eugenio
For the Currents section of Seattle Met: an illustration about the move to the upcoming new Amazon.com headquarters.
Client: The Village Voice
Art Director: Tom Carlson
For the annual Best of NYC issue, I was asked to have Lady Liberty go on a selfie tour of New York, with an illustration to represent each "Best of" category.
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Client: LA Weekly
Art Director: Darrick Rainey
The Dude celebrated his 15th anniversary, and there was no more appropriate publication to celebrate the occasion than LA Weekly. Raise your White Russians, people.
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Client: Westmont College
Art Director: Mitchell Thomas
A poster for Westmont College Theatre's production of Blood Wedding.
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Client: Phoenix New Times
Art Director: Tom Carlson
Cover image about the death of Jubel Dean Perkins, a practitioner of an ancient Viking religion called Asatru.
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Client: Riverfront Times
Art Director: Tom Carlson
Cover illustration that ran on four different Village Voice Media papers; scroll down to see the printed versions.
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Client: City Pages
Art Director: Mike Kooiman
Cover for Minnesota's City Pages, for a Middle Eastern Film Festival coming to town. The article noted that many of the films were distinctly inspired by American movies, particularly James Dean films.
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Client: The Hollywood Reporter
Art Director: Peter Cury
The CEOs of Amazon and Netflix gird themselves for war as both companies create original films that are vying for Oscar attention.
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Client: Seattle Weekly
Art Director: Jane Sherman
A cover for the fall arts issue, which included various Hindu-themed exhibitions and events. The monkey god Hanuman here wields an orange Space Needle as his scepter (it was temporarily orange back then), and Mount Rainier in the place of the usual tropical island in his hand.
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Client: Westmont College
Art Director: John Blondell
A poster for Westmont College Theatre, the challenge of this piece was to represent two different productions, performed on the same night, of the same basic text of the tragedy Dido and Aeneas. Each production had its own style and cast, and the back-to-back performance combined into an evening of theatre known as The Dido Project.
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A tribute to the late great Adam West. His Batman was indeed the Bright Knight.
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Client: Phoenix New Times
Art Director: Peter Storch
Illustration about the vegan food chain The Loving Hut, which is accused of being a financial front for a cult. The article claimed that employees are to perform their duties as work hours on behalf of the church.
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Client: SF Weekly
Art Director: Andrew Nilsen
During a state financial crisis, key California unions managed to negotiate bonuses for tasks that would usually be considered simply part of their day-to-day jobs.
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Client: Racer Magazine
Art Director: Rob French
Portrait of Formula-One racing mogul, Bernie Ecclestone.
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Client: Self promotion
A portrait of the America’s favorite grizzled “Get Off My Lawn” guy.
Client: Miami New Times
Art Director: Miche Ratto
The Hollywood Beach area of Miami threatens to be fundamentally transformed (for the worse) due to the opening of a new Jimmy Buffet-owned Margaritaville resort.
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Client: The Wall Street Journal
Art Director: Mark Tyner
Illustration for the Weekend Investor section, on the topic of how to best assist your debt-laden college graduate.
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Client: Scottsdale Times
Art Director: Shanna Hogan
Illustration for a cover story about the world of fanboys, specifically the impassioned fans of Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, and comic books.
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Client: Seattle Met
Art Director: Chuck Kerr
Ben Thompson ran a successful Kickstarter campaign for playing cards based off of his popular "Badass of the Week" website. But successfully fulfilling the card orders turned into a debacle.
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Client: Stocks & Commodities
Art Director: Christine Morrison
For an article about financial markets, which makes specific mention of waiting to make your move until the market "tips its hat to you." A layer of film grain was added to give it an old-time print lithography feel.
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Client: Variety
Art Director: Robyn Boehler
Celebrating the final round of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler as hosts of the Golden Globes awards ceremony.
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Client: Westmont Theatre
Art Director: Mitchell Thomas
Poster for Westmont's innovative production of the Greek tragedy Electra.
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Client: City Pages
Art Director: Mike Kooiman
Originally painted for my own Halloween-themed mailer back during the 2012 election cycle, Mike Kooiman at City Pages saw it and asked to run it in their Halloween issue.
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Client: The Wall Street Journal
Art Director: Mark Tyner
For the Weekend Investor section of the Wall Street Journal, on the topic of measuring one's own financial knowledge.
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Client: Westmont Theatre
Art Director: John Blondell
Poster for a series of short plays by Samuel Beckett.
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Client: The Wall Street Journal
Art Director: Mark Tyner
Column on the topic of "10 Things You Don't Know About Your Financial Advisor"...and they're not good.
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Client: CL Tampa
Art Director: Todd Bates
For a summer 2011 cover, in anticipation of the inevitable impact of the RNC convention that was to be hosted in Tampa the following year.
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Client: The North American Review
Art Director: Shelly Criswell
Illustration for a fiction story for The North American Review, about a man's attempt to come to terms with both his own alcoholism and his father's horse-racing gambling addiction.
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Client: Seattle Met
Art Director: Sara D'Eugenio
Seattle serves as one of the tech hubs of the U.S.A. Apparently, we have nothing to fear from our eventual robot overlords.
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