On this day, May 3, 1961, animator Joe Murray was born in San Jose, California. While still in high school, Murray did political cartoons for a local newspaper. By the age of 20 he was already producing illustrations and a few years later he was creating animated films. Murray is the creator of the animated
On this day, May 2, 1895, Peggy Bacon was born in Ridgefield, Connecticut. Bacon studied with John Sloan and George Bellows at the Art Students League in New York. In addition to doing art and making caricatures, Bacon wrote poetry and illustrated over 60 children’s books.
On this day, May 1, 1881, Herbert Moore was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. After studying at the Manual Training High School in Indianapolis, Moore studied at the Art Students League in New York and then with Howard Pyle in Delaware. Moore did illustration work for Harper’s Monthly, Woman’s Home Companion, and The Delineator.
On this day, April 30, 1968, illustrator and graphic designer David M. Halili was born in Fullerton, California. Halili’s work encompasses album covers, posters, logos, and merchandise like T-shirts. An example of one of Halili’s album covers is Body Count.
On this day, April 29, 1995, illustrator Gerald McCann died in Spring Valley, New York. McCann studied at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. In 1939 McCann began creating story illustrations for pulp magazines. After WWII McCann also drew and inked comic books and some Classics Illustrated Comics.
On this day, April 28, 1878, illustrator Sidney Armer was born in San Francisco, California. Following his studies at the Mark Hopkins Institute, Armer worked at Dickman-Jones Lithograph Company created fine art prints and advertising illustrations, and calendar illustrations for other companies. Armer also collaborated with his wife Laura Armer for whom he did illustrations of
On this day, April 27, 1898, writer and illustrator Ludwig Bemelmans was born in Meran, Austria-Hungary. He emigrated to the U. S. in the early decades of the20th century. Bemelmans began publishing children’s books in the 1930s and his own first Madeline book was published in 1939.
On this day, April 26, 1916, illustrator Eyvind Earle was born New York and then raised in Hollywood. By the 1940s Earle was creating card designs for the American Artist Group. In the 50s, Earle was working for Disney as a background painter. Among his contributions were the backgrounds for Disney’s Peter Pan and for Sleeping Beauty
On this day, April 25, 1926, comic book artist Johnny (John Thomas Alexis) Craig was born Pleasantville, New York. While studying at the Art Students League of New York, Craig began working as an assistant to Harry Lampert, co-creator of the Flash. After his war service Craig began drawing for EC Comics eventually he worked as
On this day, April 24, 1913, The Woolworth Building in New York was opened. Designed by architect Cass Gilbert, a rental prospectus with this illustrated drawing of the skyscraper was offered with the comment that this soon to be opened building was the “HighestBuilding in the World.”