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fle26210_fm.qxd 9/30/03 2:37 PM Page XX XX | PREFACE | 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. # 41921 Cust: Delmar Au: Fleishman Pg No XX K
fle26210_fm.qxd 9/30/03 2:37 PM Page XXI | PREFACE | David McGlynn lives and works in New York City. Born and raised in the Bronx, he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from SUNY Purchase, New York, in 1979, and moved to New York to begin his career. During this period he first began to explore the possibilities of panoramic collages as color contact prints. A veteran of many solo and group exhibitions, David has produced mural-size pieces for installation and touring shows, corporate commissions, and permanent installations at locations such as the AT&T building in New York City. His art is included in various private as well as public collections. Portfolio spreads of his work have been published in Life magazine, Popular Photography, and more. A successful commercial photo-illustrator, David’s work has appeared in numerous publications such as WIRED, New York, Forbes, the New York Times, and for corporate and advertising clients that include Miller Brewing Company, Absolut Vodka, and Minolta Copiers. A professional illustrator and painter since 1952, Paul Melia has served clients in the health care field, as well as the Fortune 500, the publishing industry, and the government. He is a graduate of the School of the Dayton Art Institute with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. Melia’s design, illustration, portraits, and water media work have appeared in nearly 300 exhibitions. This includes the prestigious Federation of Canadian Artists—AIM for the Arts International Exhibit 2000 (where he won the top award of $25,000), the American Watercolor Society, and the Communications Arts Annual Exhibit, the New York Society of Illustrators Annual Exhibit’s, Ohio Watercolor Society in which he was a five-time gold award winner), and Watercolor USA. His paintings and portraits are represented in numerous corporate and private collections throughout the world. He and his wife, Carole, reside in Dayton, Ohio. Ken Meyer Jr. has been employed in many industries as an artist, using many disciplines. He has produced training materials for educational media companies and the military (where he worked close to Area 51), designed for the Web, and created art for online games (the popular Everquest). Throughout, he has done freelance illustration for the gaming market, comics, mainstream media, and more. He resides in Fairfax, Virginia, with his lovely wife Mona and adorable girls Riley and Avery. Contact Ken Meyer Jr. at: 10108 Spring Lake Terrace, Fairfax, VA 22030 or online: kenmeyerjr@cox.net David Milgrim is a full-time children’s book author/illustrator with twelve books to his credit. He has also been a commercial illustrator and graphic designer. He lives in Rhode Island with his wife and child. Some titles include Cows Can’t Fly, Viking; Here in Space, Bridgewater; My Friend Lucky, Atheneum; Thank You Thanksgiving, Clarion; The Adventures of Otto series, Atheneum. Mark Monlux is an award-winning Pacific Northwest illustrator whose freelance career spans over two decades. His involvement in various professional organizations—the Society of Professional Graphic Artists, the Graphic Artists Guild, the Tacoma Ad Club, the NorthWest Designers Association, and Cartoonists Northwest—has contributed to efforts on both the state and national level to improve and protect artists’ rights. He currently lives in Tacoma, Washington. # 41921 Cust: Delmar Au: Fleishman Pg No XXI K XXI
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