From the beginning I drew feverishly from my imagination in a cartoon style that helped get me rejected from art college twice. As a temporary job I stuffed clocks in boxes after testing their alarms. A woman on the assembly line told me that you can go 3 days without showering if you change your clothes everyday. Forewarned is forearmed and I left the next day. Accepted at a local college to study Graphic Design, I eventually taught myself how to illustrate with an airbrush, with a little help from my friends. I pursued illustration out of intuition rather than purpose. With Bugs Bunnyesque humor a constant theme, for 34+ years my illustrations have helped sell magazines, mustard, pickles and glue.
My major influences have been Don Martin of Mad Magazine, Chuck Jones, creator of Bugs Bunny Cartoons, Roger Dean - illustrator of Yes album covers, and contemporary illustrators such as Mark Fredrickson, Thomas Blackshire, Barry Jackson and Bill Mayer. I have a voracious appetite for popular culture especially TV, film and music.
Editorial Client List:Barron’s, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Sports Illustrated for Kids, Time for Kids, Grammy Magazine, Microsoft CPMag, 101 Communications, Country Weekly Magazine, PBI Media, Maxim Magazine and Melcher Media.
Commercial Client List:Pepsi (Pepsi, Pepsi Freeze, Mountain Dew), UDV (Smirnoff, Baileys), Coca-Cola, (Coke, Powerade), Anheuser Busch (Bud Light), Coors (Coors Light), Nestlés, Hostess Frito Lay, Hershey (Reeses), General Foods, Pizza Hut, Pepperidge Farms (Goldfish), Purina (Busy Bone), Bayer, Scott Paper, Atari, Toshiba, Panasonic, Blockbuster Video, Michelin Tires, US Savings Bonds, US Postal Service, Spin Master, American Plastics Council, Toshiba, CN Tower (Toronto), RadioShack, Pharmacia (Unidet), Nasonex, KLynn Inc.
Awards:Award of Excellence – 2000 Communication Arts Magazine for Scholastic Magazine: “Workplace Mistakes” Category: Editorial
Gold – 2002 National Magazine Awards Foundation for Seasons Magazine “24 Hours in the Life of Your Campsite” Category: Words and Pictures Editorial Series
Winner – 2006 3rd Biennial Dimensional Salon, Society of Illustrators, New York for “Our Daily Dread - Agnes McHaggus.” Cover art for “Our Daily Dread - Daily Reflections on Life’s Rejections” © Kevin McQuade (Unpublished) Artists: Valerie Gaudet, Mick Coulas, Candace Lourdes. Category: 3-Dimensional Single Editorial Design.
Excellence – 2007 Applied Arts Magazine Photography & Illustration Awards Annual for Melcher Media’s “The Pop-up Book of Celebrity Meltdowns” Category: Editorial Series.
Merit – 2007 The Art Directors Club 86th Annual Awards New York for Melcher Media’s “The Pop-up Book of Celebrity Meltdowns” Category: Editorial Series.
See the Pop-up Book of Celebrity Meltdowns - look at attached quick time movie of the CNN interview of Charles Melcher, the publisher of the pop up book here.
Award of Excellence – 2009 Communication Arts Magazine for Penthouse Magazine, article “Famous Body Parts – where have they gone?” Category: Editorial Series.
Design Award - 2010 American Inhouse Design Award for Penthouse: Revealing Entertainment Feature "Rajin Cajun" for the Movie "The Bad Lieutenant" Category: Editorial
Design Award - 2010 American Inhouse Design Award for Penthouse: Revealing Entertainment Feature "Resistance is Futile" for the Movie "Star Trek" (2009) Category: Editorial
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