Exploring Illustration - Delmar Learning

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Most recently, PJ is back at Parsons, teaching both illustration and Web design. He’s also returned to an
earlier passion for music; he’s recording and also performing for East Coast audiences.
As a teenager, Detroit-born Overton Loyd drew caricatures at state fairs. In 1977, he signed up with musician
George Clinton, a turn that has distinguished him as a pop culture illustrator. Loyd helped produce
Clinton’s Parliament/Funkadelic multimedia stage shows, designed costumes, created album covers,
and animated videos. He won Billboard’s Best Use of Computer Graphics award in 1983 for his work on
the music video Atomic Dog. He is well known as the featured caricaturist on the television program Win,
Lose, or Draw. Contact Overton Loyd at: 530 Molino #218, Los Angeles, CA 90013, by phone: 213-687-7233
or online: http://www.overvision.com
Ben Mahan lives on a farm in Morrow County, Ohio, close to the area where he grew up. He is married
and has two daughters. Mahan attended the Columbus College of Art and Design (where he teaches
part-time) and has worked for Hallmark Cards. He eventually moved to New York City, and began a professional
relationship with Jim Henson, the Muppets, and the Sesame Street TV shows. Mahan draws
extensively for magazines, greeting cards, and children’s books. His art has been chosen for several
UNICEF cards. The award-winning illustrator has been recognized by the New York One Show, CA, Print,
American Institute of Graphic Arts, the Society of Illustrators in New York, the Society of Korean Illustration
Art, and the Gallery of Contemporary Art in Rome, Italy.
A native of Kentucky, Gregory Manchess earned a B.A. from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in
1977, but is largely self-taught in drawing and painting. After two years as a studio illustrator, he struck out on
his own in 1979. Greg’s client work includes covers for Time, Atlantic Monthly; a portrait of Sean Connery for
the film Finding Forrester; three portraits for the History Channel on the tsars of Russia; spreads for Playboy,
Omni, Newsweek, Smithsonian, National Geographic and numerous book covers. In the fall of 2003, his third
children’s book, Giving Thanks by Jonathan London, was scheduled to be released. He has won numerous
awards from the New York Society of Illustrators, including its highest achievement, the Hamilton King Award.
Greg Maxson earned his Associates Degree in technical graphics from Purdue University in 1988, and
has practiced technical illustration ever since. Greg has provided technical illustrations to large and
small corporate and publishing clients such as Ryobi, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Popular Science,
Consumer Reports, and Corvette Quarterly. His work can also be seen in the Illustrator WOW! books, the
Artist’s & Graphic Designer’s Market, and in regular issues of SBS Digital Design. Greg also currently
works as an illustrator at Precision Graphics and lives in Urbana, Illinois, with his wife Wendy and their
son Drake. Contact Greg at: gmaxti@shout.net
Marti McGinnis, along with her husband, three dogs, two birds, a Fijian cat from her Peace Corps days,
and a lizard she rescued from her local Home Depot check-out line, lives in Evanston, Illinois, and makes
her Happy Art when she’s not out tending her madcap garden.
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