Experience

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  • Freelance Illustration, Caricatures, And Graphic Design
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  freelance

  • Toowoomba, Australia

  • Freelance Illustration, Caricatures, and Graphic Design

    • Jun 1966 - Present
    • Toowoomba, Australia
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  For Beginners LLC

  • Danbury, CT

  • Freelance Illustrator

    • 1996 - Present
    • Danbury, CT

    Proust For Beginners, publication date 17 May 2016.For details and orders, see: http://www.forbeginnersbooks.com/proustforbeginners.html --From the publisher's web site: Meet French novelist Marcel Proust—author of the modernist classic In Search of Lost Time (A la recherche du temps perdu, 1...

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  Oxfordshire County Council, People4Business, an...

  • Oxford and London, UK, Long Island NY

  • Art Tutor / individual instruction and portfolio reviews

    • Jul 1966 - Present
    • Oxford and London, UK, Long Island NY

    A two-year individual art course for a slightly-disabled / differently-abled student was partially funded by the Oxfordshire Council. Some excellent work in his portfolio got him admitted to a good art school, aiming for a career in animation. My student reciprocated by sharing with me his own hi...

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  freelance cartoonist, calligrapher, cartographe...

  • Long Island, NY

  • artist

    • 1952 - Present
    • Long Island, NY

    freelance

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  WPKN, Hallockville Farm Museum, Old Town Arts G...

  • Connecticut and Long Island

  • graphic designer / digital artist: CDs, Books, posters for concerts & exh...

    • 2011 - Present
    • Connecticut and Long Island

    Created cover designs for books and CDs, posters to publicize events for non-profit organizations.

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  Green Task Force on Long Island Watersheds and ...

  • Riverhead, NY

  • Communications and Outreach

    • Nov 2014 - May 2015
    • Riverhead, NY

    Way back in 1978, a federally-funded "208 Study" identified pesticides, pavement and sewage as three main sources of the "non-point-source pollution" threatening Long Island's aquifers and estuaries. Coalitions of local governments and environmental groups are currently st...

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  ALM Communications

  • Greater Chicago Area

  • Freelance Cartoonist / Book Illustrator / Associate Brainstormer

    • Mar 2012 - Dec 2014
    • Greater Chicago Area

    Worked with Amy Munice, PR whiz and B2B expert, on numerous ads, designs and projects, notably a guide to B2B public relations.

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  Dowling College

  • Oakdale NY

  • Artist / Educator / Guest Lecturer: Illustration Styles & Techniques

    • Oct 2012 - Oct 2012
    • Oakdale NY

    Guest-taught an Illustration class, speaking on my work, styles and techniques, and how to establish a freelance career. Also led a 4-hour seminar on ink techniques at East End Arts, Inc. ≈in November 2014.

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  Channel Five Television Ltd, and Life Drawing S...

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Artist / Educator / minor roles in nude cat video, Candy Bar Girls

    • Dec 2010 - Feb 2012
    • London, United Kingdom

    Taught life drawing classes at several venues around Central London and Camden Town, including a private class for professionals at a design firm. Hired to play the role of life drawing teacher for a 4-minute video sponsored by Whiskas (cat food), and again for an episode of Channel 5's Reali...

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  Barnet College

  • North London, UK

  • Sessional Lecturer (adjunct faculty)

    • Nov 2002 - Jul 2010
    • North London, UK

    Taught Art, IT, Current Affairs, Basic Skills and Creative Writing at Community Link, an autonomous accredited program within Barnet College for adults recovering from mental health problems. My responsibilities included occasional informal counseling to help students deal with depression, side e...

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  The British Museum

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Artist / Educator

    • Oct 2002 - Oct 2004
    • London, United Kingdom

    "The world's largest drawing festival", organized by The Campaign for Drawing, is called The Big Draw and takes place annually at locations throughout the United Kingdom and in 20 other countries. I was one of a few artists the British Museum entrusted with the job of corralling an...

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  Guardian News & Media (UK national newspape...

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Political Cartoonist

    • Jan 2003 - Jul 2003
    • London, United Kingdom

    I was a fellow panelist with Martin Rowson at the Greenwich Theatre during the Institute of Ideas's 2002 Satire Week; he liked my work enough to recommend me to the Guardian editors, and they too were favourably impressed with my previous work for WSJ, Newsday and Random House. I did ten or f...

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  University of Oxford, Ruskin College

  • Oxford, United Kingdom

  • Guest Lecturer: Drawing as a Way of Thinking

    • May 2003 - 2003
    • Oxford, United Kingdom

    A three-day short course in Drawing as a Way of Thinking, attended by a dozen artists from Oxford and the surrounding communities. One announced the course had "changed my life" by providing new ways of seeing the world, her art, and her life; one or two were merely perplexed; the other...

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  The Poetry Society

  • Covent Garden, London UK

  • Cartographer, Poetry Landmarks of Great Britain

    • 2003 - 2003
    • Covent Garden, London UK

    "In 2003, to mark the tenth anniversary of National Poetry Day, the Poetry Society launched a search to find the Poetry Landmarks of Britain. Since that time we've found the Poetry Landmarks section of our website to be a first 'port of call' when researching poetry . . . "—...

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  Newsday Media Group (NYC/LI newspaper)

  • Melville NY and New York City

  • illustrator, caricaturist

    • Oct 1980 - Sep 2001
    • Melville NY and New York City

    The total number of freelance assignments for Newsday was probably well over 500. It was a great job, working with great people, including art directors Jack Sherman, Miriam Smith, and Gary Rogers, and book review editor Jack Schwartz (who purchased a dozen of my author portrait originals for the...

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  The New York Times

  • Greater New York City Area

  • illustrator

    • 1984 - Dec 2000
    • Greater New York City Area

    freelance, page one illustrations for Week in Review, Sunday Business, spots for sports pages

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  The Wall Street Journal

  • Greater New York City Area

  • illustrator, caricaturist, political cartoonist

    • Oct 1983 - Jun 2000
    • Greater New York City Area

    Starting in October 1983, I produced hundreds of portraits and 'toons for the daily paper's Leisure & Arts page (with perfectionist editor Pam Lambert), a year of "hedcuts" for the news pages (with master inker Kevin Sprouls), and at least one political cartoons in every iss...

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  Earth Island Institute

  • Suffolk County, New York

  • Researcher, Organizer and Agitator (Long Island chapter, Citizens Planning Bo...

    • 1986 - 1996
    • Suffolk County, New York

    Exhaustive research into the a leading Long Island mall developer's SEC filings, environmental impact statements, public hearings and published speeches revealed fraudulent and misleading information presented to potential investors— a Federal felony. My findings were publicly revealed by CPB...

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  New York University, Master Class in Environmen...

  • Washington Square Park, New York City

  • Guest Lecturer

    • Apr 1992 - Apr 1992
    • Washington Square Park, New York City

    Spoke on "Ecology, Economics, and the Future of the NY Metropolitan Area" at a class for Environmental Studies graduate students. Adapted from a similar talk I had previously delivered at several schools and civic association meetings on Long Island, dealing with the economic consequenc...

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  Random House

  • Greater New York City Area

  • Freelance Illustrator, cover artist

    • 1985 - 1989
    • Greater New York City Area

    Working closely with noted design director Robert Aulicino, produced about a dozen pieces of cover art for Random House books, notably including The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers by Paul Kennedy, The Politics of Rich and Poor by Kevin Philips, and The Berkut by Joseph Heywood. Bob and I went ...

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  Marvel Entertainment

  • Crazy magazine, New York City

  • Cartoonist / Writer

    • 1980 - 1982
    • Crazy magazine, New York City

    I was illustrator for some dense 3-page stories (e.g., Conventional Warfare for Today's Kids) and writer-illustrator of Alphaduck Soup. Under editor Larry Hama, Crazy had veered away from the pack of Mad imitators, off into its own peculiar, dark niche. The star of the show was Ralph Reese, a...

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  East End Independent, Tangential Bivalve Inc.

  • Bellport, New York

  • President, Publisher, Graphic Designer

    • Dec 1973 - Sep 1974
    • Bellport, New York

    The East End Independent was the most ambitious of several independent newspapers I founded and published between 1971 and 1994. Karl Grossman served as editor. Everett and Helen Rattray of the East Hampton Star were so impressed by the writing and design they came to us with a buyout offer after...

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  Rat Subterranean News

  • Lower East Side, New York, NY

  • Poultry Editor, columnist, cartoonist

    • Mar 1969 - Apr 1970
    • Lower East Side, New York, NY

    Created controversial cartoons, collages, and cover art for America's most subversive underground paper. Pseudonymously wrote Horoscopes Without Hogwash column. Other Rat contributors included cartoonists Joe Schenkman and Robert Crumb, graphic designers Steve Heller and Bon Eisner, writers M...