Illustrationintheworld

  James Cecil Hatlo (September 1, 1897 – December 1, 1963), better known as Jimmy Hatlo, was an American cartoonist who in 1929 created the long-running comic strip and gag panel They'll Do It Every Time, which he wrote and drew until his death in 1963. Hatlo's other strip, Little Iodine, was adapted into a feature-length movie in 1946. In an opinion piece for the July 22, 2013, edition of The Wall Street Journal, "A Tip of the Hat to Social Media's Granddad", veteran journalist Bob Greene characterized Hatlo's daily cartoons, which credited readers who contributed the ideas, as a forerunner of Facebook and Twitter. Greene wrote: "Hatlo's genius was to realize, before there was any such thing as an Internet or Facebook or Twitter, that people in every corner of the country were brimming with seemingly small observations about mundane yet captivating matters, yet lacked a way to tell anyone outside their own circles of friends about it. Hatlo also un...

  Edward Penfield (June 2, 1866 - February 8, 1925) was an American painter, illustrator, and publicist. Father of the modern poster in the United States. With a style characterized by drawings in vast backgrounds cut out on a light background and text strongly integrated with the image, he is considered one of the pioneers of American graphics. Originally from Brooklyn, he studied art in his hometown and around 1890 took painting lessons from the impressionist George de Forest Brush. From 1891 to 1901 he was art director of important magazines such as Harper's, Harper's Bazaar and Harper's Weekly for which he also edited the advertising. The works for Harper & Brothers will remain among the most significant of his career.

  Franklin Morris Howarth (1864–1908) was an American cartoonist and pioneering comic strip artist. Howarth was born in Philadelphia on September 27, 1864. He was the oldest of four children of William and Sarah (Iseminger) Howarth. His father was a pattern maker and an English immigrant, his mother a native Philadelphian. Howarth attended Central High School. By age 19 Howarth was drawing for the Philadelphia Call and other papers, after which he began to be employed by national periodicals such as Munsey's Magazine, Life, Judge, and Truth. He joined the staff of Puck in 1891, and moved to the New York World in 1901. Howarth, whose style for figures frequently featured big heads on little bodies, was among the first generation of cartoonists to create serial cartoons, which came to be called comic strips. According to author Jared Gardner, "F. M Howarth's work is representative of the development of sequential graphic narrative during this period... Howarth fractured ...

  Howard V. Brown (1878-1945) is a US illustrator who, even though his sf Illustration represented only a small proportion of his prodigious output, became one of the Big Four sf illustrators of the 1930s (with Leo Morey, Frank R Paul and H W Wesso). He received his formal art education at Chicago's Art Institute and became based in New York. Among the books that he illustrated during his early career were all six volumes of Katharine Elizabeth Dopp's educational Industrial and Social History series about our prehistoric ancestors, beginning with The Tree Dwellers (1904). He was cover artist for Scientific American circa 1913-1931, typically showing human figures dwarfed by gigantic technological projects. Starting with a simple, almost primitive style, Brown rapidly developed into one of the most dramatic cover illustrators of that era. His first cover for an SF Magazine proper was for the October 1933 issue of Astounding, the magazine having just been bought by Street ...

  Maurice Bernard Sendak (/ˈsɛndæk/; June 10, 1928 – May 8, 2012) was an American author and illustrator of children's books. He became most widely known for his book Where the Wild Things Are, first published in 1963. Born to Polish-Jewish parents, his childhood was affected by the death of many of his family members during the Holocaust. Sendak also wrote works such as In the Night Kitchen, Outside Over There, and illustrated many works by other authors including the Little Bear books by Else Holmelund Minarik. Sendak was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Polish Jewish immigrants Sadie (née Schindler) and Philip Sendak, a dressmaker. Sendak described his childhood as a "terrible situation" due to the death of members of his extended family during the Holocaust which introduced him at a young age to the concept of mortality. His love of books began when, as a child, he developed health issues and was confined to his bed. When he was 12 years old, he decided to become an i...

  Virgil Finlay (July 23, 1914 – January 18, 1971) was an American pulp fantasy, science fiction and horror illustrator. He has been called "part of the pulp magazine history ... one of the foremost contributors of original and imaginative art work for the most memorable science fiction and fantasy publications of our time." While he worked in a range of media , from gouache to oils, Finlay specialized in, and became famous for, detailed pen-and-ink drawings accomplished with abundant stippling, cross-hatching, and scratchboard techniques. Despite the very labor-intensive and time-consuming nature of his specialty, Finlay created more than 2600 works of graphic art in his 35-year career. The Science Fiction Hall of Fame inducted Finlay in 2012.

Emerson Tung is a concept artist and illustrator currently based in San Francisco, California. Tung has created illustrations for Warhammer 40K RPG books, character illustrations for Applibot's Galaxy Saga, concept art for Warmachines: Tactics and Hasbro's Transformers franchise. He was also one of the concept arts for the last Doom video game and many mobile applications (“Angry Birds: Transformers” and “Hostile Takeover”). Those illsutrations depict mechas, either re-interpretation of classics of the genre (Transformers, Megazord, Macross) or magnificent new Mechas. Those new Mechas can be as epic as surprising.  

  Kevin Nelson is a visual development artist for the animated film industry, in particular Disney Animation Studios. He has worked on films like The Emperor's New Groove, Tangled, Bolt and Meet The Robinsons. What little I know about him is not from any biographical material conspicuously absent from his blog, but simply because he has posted some images there from his work on those films. In addition you will find work on personal projects and some life sketches. Nelson has one of those delightful drawing styles that can be at once precise and energetic, with enough “snap” to his lines and angles to suggest motion and vibrancy. He also has wonderful control over his color palette and uses atmospheric perspective to great effect.

  Abigail's strange and macabre illustrations have been shown in many cities throughout the US and Europe, including NYC, Los Angeles, London, and Paris. Her first gallery show was at the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in 2009. Since then she's gone on to work with DC Comics, Dark Horse, IDW, Titan Comics, Image Comics, Universal, SYFY, Sideshow Collectibles, Netflix Animation, WB Animation, and Disney Books. In 2016 she won the Hugo Award for "Best Professional Artist."

  Steven Ross Purcell (born October 1, 1961) is an American cartoonist, animator, game designer, and voice actor. He is the creator of the Sam & Max media franchise, for which Purcell received an Eisner Award in 2007. The series has grown to include an animated television series and several video games. A graduate of the California College of Arts and Crafts, Purcell began his career creating comics for the college newsletter. He did freelance work for Marvel Comics and Fishwrap Productions before publishing his first Sam & Max comic in 1987. Purcell was hired by LucasArts as an artist and animator in 1988 and has worked on several LucasArts adventure games, including the first three LucasArts games of Monkey Island, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Sam and Max hit the road. Purcell teamed with Nelvana to create a Sam & Max television series in 1997 and worked briefly as an animator for Industrial Light & Magic after leaving LucasArts. He is currently empl...

  Genevieve Tsai is an artist and the supervising character designer for the Animaniacs reboot. She was particularly responsible for the finalized redesigns of Yakko, Wakko, and Dot Warner, Dr. Scratchansniff, Pinky, and the Brain. Her drawings are so fluid and full of personality. Story Artist and Character Designer at Dreamworks Feature Animation. Previously Supervising Character Designer at Warner Bros. Animation on Animaniacs, Co-Creative Director for the visual style of the Tom & Jerry Time pilot teaser (full series on CARTOONITO Directed by Showrunner and Co-Executive Producer Will Finn), and set the basis of the style for the upcoming Tiny Toons Looniversity. Designing characters for over 17 years for a myriad of clients and media, including Netflix, Blizzard, Intel, Google, Riot Games, ReelFX, DisneyToon Studios, Ghostbot, Bento Box, Hasbro, Activision, EA, Zynga, Spin Master Ltd. Genevieve was also the interior illustrator for the novel, "Rescue Sirens: The Search...