Results tagged “Ward Sutton” from Grids

When Cartoonists Illustrate! Part 11: Matt Wuerker

By Ward SuttonSuttonImpactStudio.comWhen Cartoonists Illustrate! There's often a line drawn between cartoonists and illustrators. All this week, I'm profiling talented people known for their cartooning and showing their work in an illustration context.Matt Wuerker is the award-winning Politico staff cartoonist... MORE

When Cartoonists Illustrate! Part 10: Bruce Eric Kaplan (BEK)

By Ward SuttonSuttonImpactStudio.com When Cartoonists Illustrate! There's often a line drawn between cartoonists and illustrators. All this week, I'm profiling talented people known for their cartooning and showing their work in an illustration context.Bruce Eric Kaplan is a cartoonist for... MORE

Interview with Graphics Editor Jennifer Daniel: "I like it fast, dirty, impulsive, and a little sexy..."

By Ward SuttonSuttonImpactStudio.comFrom Design to Illustration to Animation, Jennifer Daniel does it all and does it all well in the world of graphics. As the graphics director at Bloomberg Businessweek she was a driving force of that magazine's visual voice... MORE

When Cartoonists Illustrate! Part 9: Emily Flake

By Ward SuttonSuttonImpactStudio.com When Cartoonists Illustrate! There's often a line drawn between cartoonists and illustrators. All this week, I'm profiling talented people known for their cartooning and showing their work in an illustration context.Emily Flake is a cartoonist, illustrator, writer,... MORE

When Cartoonists Illustrate! Part 8: Matt Bors

By Ward SuttonSuttonImpactStudio.comWhen Cartoonists Illustrate! There's often a line drawn between cartoonists and illustrators. All this week, I'm profiling talented people known for their cartooning and showing their work in an illustration context.Matt Bors, political cartoonist and editor of The Nib... MORE

The Flip Side of Andy Rash

By Ward SuttonSuttonImpactStudio.comAndy Rash is the award-winning author and illustrator o fthe books Are You a Horse?, Ten Little Zombies: A Love Story, and the soon to be released Archie the Daredevil Penguin. He has also illustrated for lots of... MORE

When Cartoonists Illustrate! Part 7: Lalo Alcaraz

By Ward SuttonSuttonImpactStudio.comWhen Cartoonists Illustrate! There's often a line drawn between cartoonists and illustrators. All this week, I'm profiling talented people known for their cartooning and showing their work in an illustration context.Lalo Alcaraz does the nationally syndicated daily comic... MORE

When Cartoonists Illustrate! Part 6: Tom Tomorrow

By Ward SuttonSuttonImpactStudio.comWhen Cartoonists Illustrate! There's often a line drawn between cartoonists and illustrators. All this week, I'm profiling talented people known for their cartooning and showing their work in an illustration context.Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins), creator of the weekly... MORE

From Newsprint to Museum: Curating Comics

By Ward SuttonSuttonImpactStudio.comIn a wonderful moment of synergy here at Grids' Alt Week, the exhibition Alt-Weekly Comics is now up at the Society of Illustrators in NYC. I got the chance to ask curators Warren Bernard and Bill Kartalopoulos about... MORE

When Cartoonists Illustrate! Part 5: Roz Chast

By Ward SuttonSuttonImpactStudio.comWhen Cartoonists Illustrate! There's often a line drawn between cartoonists and illustrators. All this week, I'm profiling talented people known for their cartooning and showing their work in an illustration context.Roz Chast draws cartoons for The New Yorker.... MORE

When Cartoonists Illustrate! Part 4: Benjamin Marra.

By Ward SuttonSuttonImpactStudio.comWhen Cartoonists Illustrate! There's often a line drawn between cartoonists and illustrators. All this week, I'm profiling talented people known for their cartooning and showing their work in an illustration context.Benjamin Marra, the underground cartoonist and creator of... MORE

From Ward Sutton's Vault: "Start Your Own Publication"

By Ward SuttonSuttonImpactStudio.comIn 1991, I was living in Minneapolis and working as a cartoonist and kind-of assistant art director for the alt weekly Twin Cities Reader, when I decided to move to Seattle. I arrived with one job interview scheduled... MORE

Interview with Mad Magazine Art Director Sam Viviano

By Ward SuttonSuttonImpactStudio.comAfter a 22-year career as a freelance illustrator, Sam Viviano became the art director of Mad magazine in 1999. I've had the pleasure and honor of working with Sam for many years, and he was gracious enough to... MORE

When Cartoonists Illustrate! Part 3: Jen Sorensen

By Ward SuttonSuttonImpactStudio.comWhen Cartoonists Illustrate! There's often a line drawn between cartoonists and illustrators. All this week, I'm profiling talented people known for their cartooning and showing their work in an illustration context.Jen Sorensen is a nationally-published political cartoonist, Comics... MORE

When Cartoonists Illustrate! Part 2: Derf

By Ward SuttonSuttonImpactStudio.comWhen Cartoonists Illustrate! There's often a line drawn between cartoonists and illustrators. All this week, I'm profiling talented people known for their cartooning and showing their work in an illustration context.Derf Backderf, writer-artist of the international bestselling graphic... MORE

An Interview with Art Director Art Chantry: "Stop Faking Design"

By Ward SuttonSuttonImpactStudio.comArt Chantry's work can be seen on telephone poles, art museums, and everywhere in between. Based in Seattle and Tacoma, he has created hundreds, or likely thousands of band posters, LP and CD covers, and designs for magazines,... MORE

When Cartoonists Illustrate! Part 1: Kate Beaton

By Ward SuttonSuttonImpactStudio.comWhen Cartoonists Illustrate! There's often a line drawn between cartoonists and illustrators. All this week, I'm profiling talented people known for their cartooning and showing their work in an illustration context. Kate Beaton is the creator of the... MORE

This Week's Guest Editor: Cartoonist/Illustrator Ward Sutton

[A note from the SPD Grids Editors: This is the sixth in our ongoing series of Guest Editors on the Society of Publication Designers website. Ward Sutton is a cartoonist, illustrator, writer, and visual provocateur. As a graphic storyteller supreme... MORE

Show Us Your Copy of My Favo(u)rite Magazine, Pt. 2

My Favo(u)rite Magazine is the benefit project for art director Bob Newman, organized by Jeremy Leslie and Andrew Losowsky. Following Bob's serious accident in March, Jeremy and Andrew reached out to a stellar cast of magazine makers, including Florian Bachleda,... MORE

Village Voice Covers

Weekly magazines get a lot of love and attention for their covers, and deservedly so. Time, Bloomberg Businessweek, New York, The New York Times Magazine, until recently, Newsweek, and even the Huffington. app have all been producing a highly sophisticated... MORE