Illustration

I make compelling and emotionally-charged imagery for stories with gravity. I like playing with deep shadows, textures and symbolic distortion to communicate challenging subjects with clarity and resonance.

Editorial Illustrations

I've created hundreds of editorial illustrations for Truthout, a non-profit news site. The work often included sensitive subject matter, rapid turn-arounds and in-depth editorial collaboration to meet the tonal and narrative needs of each story. Also: a lot of portraiture of politicos, whose faces I'm sparing us from in this assortment.

Editorial illustration of consumerist zombies outside as a lightning and fires rage in background. Editorial illustration of a man chained to a giant floating eyeball by binary code. Editorial illustration of a grayscale woman pulling a curtain away to reveal a colorful march with happy people. Editorial illustration of a kid watering the lawn and looking up to see a large drone in the sky. Editorial illustration of police with eyes in their chests to represent body cams. Editorial illustration of a man cooking with a prison fence backdrop Editorial illustration of a prisoner reading a letter Editorial illustration of a giant policeman ushering two students in a direction. Editorial illustration of a person in profile with syringes arrayed against them. Editorial illustration of two adult hands and one child's hand touching the window separating a prison visitation. Editorial illustration of water protectors standing hand-in-hand against corporate oil-pipe-headed giants Editorial illustration of Mary and Jesus, with surveillance cameras in place of heads Editorial illustration of a general with a toothy mouth in place of a head, feeding on a plate of cash shaped like the USA. Editorial illustration of raised fists holding items related to media and artistic creation.
Editorial illustration of scenes of women in prison contained within razor wire loops Editorial illustration of a prisoner with barbed wire tendrils reaching out for him ominously. Editorial illustration of giant businessman silhouette leaving ink stains on a building he is claiming. Editorial illustration of a face in the dark whose view is obstructed by a red panel. Editorial illustration of shadows underneath a basketball hoop, entangled with barbed wire. Editorial illustration of a prisoner behind bars represented as thermometers with rising temperatures. Editorial illustration of people and families in immigrant detention camps. Pipelines forming the flag of New Mexico, with rain and flare. Editorial illustration of of a man with the right wing of a federal eagle icon blocking his view. Editorial illustration of a crowd at a Pride parade with flags from behind. Editorial illustration of William Rivers Pitt. Editorial illustration of a businessman clawing giant hundred dollar bills into his being. Editorial illustration of a woman using a pencil to push away gray business hands that are blocking her view. Editorial illustration of a prisoner backed up against walls of her cell as a giant hand uses a pen to open a red chasm in the floor Editorial illustration of a woman, a shadowy instructor blocking her face, and older administrators turning their backs.
Editorial illustration of a woman's profile, with silhouettes of construction workers and equipment cut out of it. Editorial illustration of businessman hands reaching to claim a water reservoir. Editorial illustration of workers laboring under the surveillance of eyes Editorial illustration of a businessman in a gas mask. Editorial illustration of scissors cutting red tape blocking raised fists. Editorial illustration of stock traders wearing masks and looking at a line chart going down in panic Twitter bird icons dangling from gears and speaking a COVID molecule. Editorial illustration of masked people in line to vote Editorial illustration of gavel with pill bottle silhouette Editorial illustration of a welder, hands presenting gears and lines over a profile silhouette, representing ideas and creation Editorial illustration of a group of businessmen taking a giant lighter to the Earth, modeled after Iwo Jima memorial statue. Editorial illustration of an industrial giant beholding a tiny Earth Editorial illustration of credit card shark fins circling hand reaching out from a paper sea of red Editorial illustration of a distressed male prisoner, the image falling apart into uneven square pieces

Books

Media Control (2015)

I was approached by author Robert E. Gutsche, Jr. to design a cover and interior illustrations for his book, Media Control: News as an Institution of Power and Social Control. My objective with each illustration was to mash up two or more concepts relating to media and militarization.

Cover to Media Control, featuring an illustration of a multi-armed news media figure with a blank TV face. Cover illustration of a multi-armed news media figure with a blank TV face. Illustration of a man's profile with meddling hand silhouettes cut-out of him.
Illustration of two figures representing militarism and media, taking selfies. Illustration merging news media, The Crossing of the Delaware and modern militarism. Illustration of the silhouette of a saluting soldier on a TV over a helicopter composed of distressed newsprint.
Illustration of hands typing on the typewriter keys of a grenade. Illustration of a typing silhouette over a megaphone comprised of distressed newsprint.

Podcasts

These album covers were designed for two podcasts from Truthout.

Cover image for Climate Frontlines, a Truthout podcast, featuring the Earth and raised fists.
Cover art for Movement Memos, a Truthout podcast, with host Kelly Hayes depicted at a rainy protest.