Jack Davis & Sesame Street

Can you tell me how to get... how to get to Sesame Street? We 1970s kids all knew the way;  just turn the dial (yes dial) on the television to PBS (or CBC here in Canada) and there you'd find Ernie and Bert, Cookie Monster, Oscar the Grouch and all your other Children's Television Workshop friends!Little did this '70s kid realize that as I was watching Sesame Street (in black & white, by the way - we were the last family in our neighbourhood...

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Jack Davis "Doing Time"

Yesterday we learned how the amazing Jack Davis earned the title, "fastest draw in the East or the West." Today, again thanks to the generosity of Bill Peckmann, we'll see a dozen examples of Davis' legendary speed and prowess. Keep in mind that, just as with yesterday's Time magazine cover, Davis might have done as many as 15 pencil concept sketches before executing the final illustration for any one of these covers!  In his April '77 American...

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Jack Davis "Just-in-Time"

The April 1977 issue of American Artist magazine includes an article by Nick Meglin in which he describes exactly why legendary cartoonist Jack Davis will never yield the title of "fastest draw in the East or West" to any challenger.  To demonstrate this claim, Meglin provides a series of roughs Davis prepared for the October 1974 cover of Time magazine.Meglin tells us that not only would Jack davis often be called later in the week,...

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Barron Storey's Automotive Art

 * Thanks to Harold Henriksen for sharing these wonderful scans with us! * Listen to Thomas James' interview with Barron Storey on the Escape from Illustration Island podcast, Episode 56 * Barron Storey's website: barronstorey....

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Barron's Motorcycle Story

Excerpt from Thomas James' podcast interview with Barron Storey:"The motorcycle thing was something I never even thought of as a potential illustration market. It seemed sort of 'beneath me' to play up my teenage motorcycle fetish. All the illustrators I admired were doing much more ambitious things.""I lived across the hall from a wonderful young friend who was assistant art director at Car and Driver magazine. He knew about my motorcycle thing....

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27 Cats by Barron Storey

* Many thanks to Harold Henriksen for sharing these wonderful images with us! * Thomas James interviewed Barron Storey in Episode 56 of the Escape from Illustration Island Podcast...

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James Hill and "the ability to work with, rather than for, an art director"

From the March 1978 issue of Creativity magazine (Above and below: James Hill shares page space in various 1950s volumes of the New York Art Directors Annuals) ...

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