http://drawger.com/gregclarke/ Fri, 29 Aug 2014 15:34:13 EDT FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://drawger.com/_images/drawger_leo_logo.gif http://drawger.com/gregclarke http://drawger.com/gregclarke/index.php?section=articles&article_id=15027 I'm privileged to be part of this collection of graphic biographies celebrating the lives of visionary cartoonists.  It is art directed and edited by the venerable Monte Beauchamp and published by Simon & Schuster. It hits the streets September 2.   The contributing artists/writers are: Marc Rosenthal (Charles Adams), Arnold Roth (Al Hirschfeld), Drew Friedman (Robert Crumb), Sergio Ruzzier (Charles Schulz), Nora Krug (Hergé), Peter Kuper (Harvey Kurtzman), Ryan Heshka (Jerry Seigel and Joe Shuster), Mark Alan Stamaty (Jack Kirby), Nicolas Debon (Winsor McCay), Owen Smith (Lynd Kendall Ward), Larry Day (Walt Disney), Frank Stack (Rodolf Topffer), Gary Dumm (Hugh Hefner), Dan Zettwoch (Osamu Tezuka), Denis Kitchen (Dr. Suess), and myself (Edward Gorey).    Several panel excerpts from "Edward Gorey"...









]]> Fri, 29 Aug 2014 19:34:10 EDT http://drawger.com/gregclarke/index.php?section=articles&article_id=14264

I seem to get a lot of these book/reading related assignments (not that I'm complaining). This is an annual event in Chicago (Noah Woods created last year's beautiful poster design). I was asked to try and incorporate the iconic Dearborn Station clock tower (the neighborhood where the event takes place), and/or the "L" train. AD: David Syrek.









]]> Wed, 10 Jul 2013 18:43:25 EDT http://drawger.com/gregclarke/index.php?section=articles&article_id=14231

One of the things I love about drawger is that the posts run the gamut from the socially/politically trenchant to the sublimely inconsequential—I believe this would fall into the latter category (well...maybe not the sublime part). And the timing worked out for Bob D's birthday. This is for the June "guys" issue of 805 Living Magazine.

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Yes, the artist references are not exactly au courant, but this was created for an "Arts & Culture" themed issue of a local publication in the 'burbs—had to stick with reasonably recognizable names...



]]> Thu, 02 May 2013 18:32:07 EDT http://drawger.com/gregclarke/index.php?section=articles&article_id=13929

Just before the holidays, I was asked by my friend Stuart Karten (industrial designer extraordinaire), to create a wine label for a custom-bottling through Eric Kent Wine Cellars as a gift for one of his clients. The brief was brief: "He's an amazing guy and his name is Ray—can you work with that?" He also sent me some photo reference of Ray on a fishing trip, so I included a sketch with a fish because it looked so absurd. To my surprise, the fish sketch was the winner (apparently the fish had some deeper significance to Ray—but I won't go into that here). An added bonus—this is one very good syrah (as are all of the Eric Kent offerings)!















]]> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 21:20:38 EDT http://drawger.com/gregclarke/index.php?section=articles&article_id=13719

This piece accompanied an excellent article by David Corn in the Sept/Oct issue of Mother Jones (the one with Mr. Stephanos' fine cover). This blithe disregard for facts on the part of politicians was on full display from both candidates in the recent presidential debates... http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/09/factcheck-politifact-lying-politicians

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