Thursday, April 5, 2012

FIFTEEN MINUTES AND COUNTING


ART IS ANYTHING
YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH


HUH?

AS PROMISED
POPPED UP WHEN I GOOGLE "AS PROMISED"


TOLEDO MUD HENS OPENING DAY 2012
The project that has had me hidden away for awhile:
The cover for THE TOLEDO FREE PRESS Opening Day for the Toledo Mud Hens:




MY NAME!



See the online version of the 90 page Toledo Free Press Mud Hens Opening Day special here:
http://www.toledofreepress.com/2012/03/30/pounds-put-me-in-coach/
WANNA BUY 5 COPIES FOR MY MOTHER


The design is also featured as a poster insert in this week’s FREE PRESS STAR:

CENTERFOLD WITHOUT
STAPLES IN MY NAVEL!

And as if all of that wasn’t exciting enough, my cover went national and is listed as one of the best opening day front pages on Charles Apple’s American Copy Editor Society column! The Toledo Free Press is listed with RedEye — the free commuter tab published by the Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, The Miami Herald and other “heavy hitters”!

The TOLEDO FREE PRESS is listed as:
Batting last but starring on the mound today is our pitcher, the twice-weekly…
FREE PRESS
--Toledo, Ohio.
I ILLUSTRATED THE MUDDY ALSO!

4/5/12
Charles Apple from the American Copy Editor Society wrote a column titled: A starting lineup of the day's best Opening Day front pages. (And my illustration of Muddy was used by James Molnar for the front page of the inside insert!) I am BEYOND honored!

To think that since I can remember, I have been drawing cartoon versions of everyone I know...

Thank you everyone at the Free Press!
And Thanks to Mike Miller for putting up with my sense of humor!



STADIUM SEATING THESE HERE TOLEDO STYLE
SEATS 223 and 224