Danny Hellman Illustration Year End 2012 Wrap-Up Pt. 3: SF Bay Guardian, OC Weekly and Westword
Four alt weekly covers from 2012.
Election Day is on Tuesday, November 6, 2012.
Mitt lives.
Seven assorted Presidential race illos:
“CANDIDATES 2008”
Illustration for THE STRANGER
October 2007, Art direction by Aaron Huffman
“ROMNEY UNZIPPED”
Cover illustration for Boston Phoenix
February 2010, Art direction by Kristen Goodfriend.
“PEPPER-SPRAY THE GOP”
Cover illustration for SF BAY GUARDIAN
January 2012, Art direction by Mirissa Neff
“DESTROY ALL REPUBLICANS”
Illustration for Las Vegas Weekly
October 2011, Art direction by Ryan Olbrysh
“WET PAINT OBAMA”
Illustration for C&E Politics
May 2008, Art direction by Jeff brown
“DESKTOP ELECTION”
Illustration for PRSA TACTICS
January 2008, Art direction by John Elsasser
“SUPER OBAMA”
Cover illustration for Creative Loafing Tampa
July 2008, Art direction by Jason Hatcher
For Presidents Day, here’s some Abraham Lincoln illos. “Four Lincolns” was for Chicago Magazine, December 2005, art direction by Todd Urban. “Lincoln Pardon” was for New York Press, March 2001, art direction by Michael Gentile. Enjoy your day off!
FOUR ROMNEYS: with Mitt Romney looking ever more like the Republican front runner, I thought I’d post a few of my Romney illos, (some very recent, some not-at-all recent).
First is a cover illo for Boston Phoenix in February 2010, art direction by Kristen Goodfriend. (while looking through my files, I came across another Romney-themed Boston Phoenix cover illo from 2007, but that one has a Romney likeness that’s so far from the mark, it’s making me cringe. Sorry, Kristen!).
The second one features Obama, Edwards, Giuliani, Hillary and Romney from the 2008 Presidential election. This was for The Stranger in September of 2007, art direction by Aaron Huffman.
Third up: a Toho Studios-themed illo showing the GOP’s 2012 Presidential candidates as giant radioactive beast trampling a landscape of foreclosed homes. This ran in an issue of Las Vegas Weekly, October 2011, art direction by Ryan Olbrysh
The last and most recent of the four illos features the GOP’s 2012 Presidential candidates getting a snootful of pepper spray on the cover of the SF BAY GUARDIAN, January 2012, art direction by Mirissa Neff.
Cover illo for SF BAY GUARDIAN, January 2012, art direction by Mirissa Neff.
Excerpt from a fake ad I wrote and drew for BLACK EYE #1, edited by Ryan Standfest.
DESTROY ALL REPUBLICANS illo for the October 27th issue of Las Vegas Weekly, art direction by Ryan Olbrysh.
On October 20th, (two days after the Republican debate in Las Vegas) I got an email from LV Weekly art director Ryan Olbrysh, asking if I could supply an illo featuring the Toho monsters sporting heads of the GOP’s Presidential hopefuls. Over the years, folks have asked me what my dream assignment would be, and my typical reply is that I love doing political caricature, and I love drawing movie monsters. Not since my freewheeling days at NYPress have I had the chance to fuse these two favorite subjects into the hideous mutant hybrid you see here today. While I’d love to claim some portion of the credit for dreaming this one up, the concept is entirely Ryan’s. My part consisted of drawing the thing up and slumping back into my chair at the end with a silly smile on my face.
