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#10 - Investing in cities. For the JP Morgan Chase employee magazine, a long-time client. The topic inspired a vibrant city, a favorite theme of mine:



#9 - Global warming and insect-borne diseases. For Yale University School of Public Health. The article begged for a frightening image and colors to compliment it:



#8 - Art about the environment. For The Washington Post's Green Lantern column. I've completed over 50 of these assignments with art director Brad Walters. The topics are always interesting to me, especially those related to weather. Here's one about tornados:



How Siberian snow cover affects the severity of winters in North America:



#7 - The Christian Science Monitor.



  The Monitor has become a steady client, and I always enjoy working with the art director John Kehe. The illustration above is about omnipresent scan codes.   The illustration to the right is about home finance and interest rates.

#6 - Professor Nimbus and the Arctic Horror.



A rogue scientist, the hazards of genetic engineering and a recent trip to Scandinavia inspired this latest Professor Nimbus adventure. The setting of a scientific facility on a remote Arctic island seemed a perfect location for a sinister plot involving the breeding of carnivorous plants poised to overwhelm the planet. This comic was accepted into The Society of Illustrators 54th annual exhibit, sequential category. You can view the entire comic here.



#5 - A birding adventure. For OnEarth magazine, Gail Ghezzi is the art director. A mother and daughter volunteer to take the mid-winter bird census. I enjoyed researching the bird's plumage:



#4 - My Town series.



    Although I haven't lived in NYC for ten years the city is still a tremendous source of inspiration for me. Fortunately I'm able to visit often, and when I do I always walk past the shoeshine stand at Grand Central Station pictured below.



#3 - Oil paintings. I always have a painting in process on my easel. They take up to 4 months to complete and are a nice contrast to editorial assignments with quick deadlines:





#2 - My Venice sketchbook.



    Sketches from a five-day trip to Venice, Italy in April. This trip rekindled my love for Venice and also reminded me how fun it is to travel with my children. The weather was perfect so we were able to sketch outdoors every day. You can see more sketches here.



#1 - My Extraordinary Dream.



This comic is an account of an unusual dream that occurred one night this past spring. When I awoke I realized that I had to record my dream right away before I forgot any of it. I immediately went to my drawing table where the entire story poured out of me before I came downstairs for breakfast. Later I developed my sketches into this comic.   My Extraordinary Dream was awarded a silver medal from The Society of Illustrators 54th annual exhibit, sequential category. You can view the entire comic here.



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