I. ILLUSTRATION & CARTOONING
SOME FREELANCE CLIENTS
(PARTIAL LIST, MOSTLY NEW YORK CITY 1983-2000)
NEWSPAPERS
about 500 drawings for
The Wall Street Journal
1983-2000
including political cartoons in every issue of the Classroom Edition 1992-2000.
about 500 for
Newsday
1980-2001
including editorial pages, Sunday magazine, and book reviews
(Note to Aussies: Newsday is the big Long Island NY newspaper whose office you see at the opening of the Crocodile Dundee movie)
The New York Times
The first big cartoons ever allowed on the front page of the flagship Sunday Week-In-Review section.
Lots of fish for the sports pages, so many that friends started introducing me at parties as
THE NEW YORK TIMES TROUTIST
One of the spookier coincidences involving my late WHB High School friend and collaborator Tom Conroy
was his inexplicable insistence that the style of painting we were doing in school (25 yrs earlier) should be known as
PERSONAL TROUTISM
ALSO
The Guardian
a series of editorial cartoons before, during and after the Iraq War 2003,
some of which can be seen at the
British Cartoon Archive
New York Daily News, a handful of illustrations for Sunday book review section ,
East Hampton Star caricaturist for Hampton Film Festival supplement, political cartoonist, typography consultant, 1970s to 1990s,
Willamette Bridge Portland Oregon underground paper, advertising art and design Fall 1970,
Gothic Blimp Works co-editor with Joe Schenkman for an indefinite period following publication of its final issue
and last but not least
RAT Subterranean News
staff cartoonist from Feb 1969, precipitated Witch coup of Jan 1970
See also Part Three NEWSPAPERS (as publisher) below
BOOKS
Cover Art
Numerous book jacket illustrations for
Random House, William Morrow, Schenkman Books,
other well-known publishers and various small presses
Interior Illustrations
IllustratedJim Powell's Derrida for Beginners (1996) and Steve Bachmann's Proust for Beginners (2016).
Several uncredited interior illustrations & maps in Don Johanson's Lucy's Child (1988)
Books by Karl Grossman:
OTHER CLIENTS
Corporate:
MetLife, Exxon,
numerous financial institutions, law firms, etc.
Magazines
AdWeek, Esquire,
Ladies Home Journal, Yoga, American Banker, Dow Jones magazines, etc.
Marvel Comics:
Crazy magazine, wrote and/or illustrated several stories including Alphaduck Soup, Conventional Warfare for Today's Kids.
Various big Mad Ave. ad agencies
Doyle Dane Bernbach, a.k.a. DDB Needham and several others
Music
Polydor Records*
1969, ads for underground press
* "If you remember the 'sixties you weren't there" — not sure about this one
Labour Records
CD design for 'Civilization and Its Discontents'
Lincoln Center for the Peforming Arts
Posters for benefit concerts by
Pete Seeger, Hedy West, Jean Ritchie, Utah Philips, Angels in Overdrive
etc.
Smithsonian Museums
Washington DC
Awards & Publications
Mark Rothko
portrait introduces a chapter on Illustration in a venerable art history text,
A Guide to Drawing
by Daniel Mendelowitz
(in the 4th edition 1988, and all four subsequent editions).
It serves to show that illustration and fine art are not as far apart as people think.
Rothko was previously in an annual national juried exhibition of the
Society of Illustrators (Illustrators 26)
Eugene O'Neill
portrait was selected for the same annual show six years later
Illustrators 32
(Client: Newsday, book review page, 16 October 1988—Eugene O'Neill's 100th birthday.)
Mr. Zappa
received the highest award given for any US or foreign newspaper illustration
in an annual juried exhibition of the
Society for News Design 9
(Client: WSJ, Leisure & Arts page)
John Brown, American Terrorist
was selected for the 2002 annual juried exhibition of
The Royal Society of Portrait Painters
Ironbarks
Nancy Cuillford Prize
Toowoomba Art Society
Several caricatures, brief bio and artists statement are in
This Face You Got : The Art of the Illustrator
by Jim McMullan
(both editions), an anthology of work by prominent caricaturists.
British Cartoon Archives
Guardian cartoons included in the definitive online collection of British Cartoon history
linked above at (Newspapers / Guardian)
Exhibitions
Annual juried shows:
Society of Illustrators
Illustrators 26
1984
Illustrators 32
1990
Society for Newspaper Design
SND 9
silver award
1989
The Royal Society of Portrait Painters
at The Mall Galleries southwest of Trafalgar Square in London
2002
Toowoomba Art Society
2017
Members Show, Nancy Cuillford Prize
2018
Members Show
Life drawing show
also at T.A.S. in 2018:
3-man exhibit, Comix & Graphix
with Mark Phillips and Peter Fitzpatrick
Solo Shows
Poetry Society Café Gallery
Covent Garden , London
one-man show of literary caricatures etc
2001
(Another of recent work tentatively scheduled there mid-April 2019)
Hampton Arts Theater
Westhampton Beach, NY
A one-man show of surrealist ink drawings
1966
murals painted for lobby
1976-1981
(stolen murals were page one news in the Southampton Press, 2001)
Group Shows
St.-Martin's in the Fields Crypt Gallery
in the musical church on the northeast corner of Trafalgar Square
2005
"World-Renowned Cartoonists" group show at
Old Town Arts & Crafts Guild
Cutchogue NY
2014
"Cartoons" — group show at
East End Arts
Riverhead NY
2015
"A Group of America's Famous Cartoonists"
Malloy College Art Gallery
Rockville Center NY
National Society of Cartoonists, Long Island NY chapter
a.k.a.
Berndt Toast Gang
2015
Memberships
Professional Societies etc
(Australian current, US not so current)
US
Graphics Artists Guild,
served 2 terms on Guild's New York Board, organized Cartoonists' Militia
National Cartoonists' Society
(NCS L.I. Chapter, Berndt Toast Gang, lifetime membership in BTG)
International
International Association for the Study of Organized Crime
see The Long Island Foghorn below
Earth Island Institute
Long Island contact for various local eco-projects
Australia
Australian Cartoonists Association, member
II. TEACHING & TALKS
"It’s just so nice to be around people, one, with passion, two, with knowledge, and three, just,
like, talkin’ to you about it, you know. It was really inspiring."
— "Directionless Dani" of Channel Five's short-lived reality series Candy Bar Girls, in an unrehearsed comment
after attending a figure drawing class taught by Van Howell.
teaching art
private lessons
1966 to present
Friends World College
North American Headquarters Westbury NY
co-head of art department,
1968-69
Gallery 703
Pt Jefferson NY
figure drawing
1970s
Oxford University
Ruskin College
short course
Drawing as a Way of Thinking
2002
British Museum
The Big Draw
Etruscan Rooms
2002
Egyptian Rooms
2004
Barnet College
Community Link
Studio Art & Museum Studies
2000s
Life Drawing Society
figure drawing
Camden Town and Soho
2010-2012
Candy Bar Girls
performed as self (figure drawing instructor) in an episode of
Channel 5
Soho-based lesbian reality melodrama;
ditto in a
Whiskas
cat food promotional video (really!)
London 2011
Dowling College
Oakdale NY, guest lecturer in undergraduate illustration course
2012
East End Arts
one-day course in ink techniques
2014
Guest teacher in
New York and London schools, community centers, etc.,
on cartooning and drawing
and currently
Toowoomba Art Society
Serious Cartoons
every Monday afternoon at 1 Godsall Street
Be there or be square.
teaching other subjects; lectures, debates etc . . .
Barnet College
Community Link Program
North London
UK Sessional Lecturer in art, current events, basic skills (2002-2003), and
Creative Writing
2003-2010
ESOL course at Athena College, London 2008.
New York University
Masters Program in Environmental Studies
guest-taught seminar :
'Ecology, Economics, and the Future of the NY Metropolitan Area'
Guest speaker at numerous schools and colleges, churches, civic associations, benefit concerts
Led and/or organized numerous conferences, workshops, seminars on coastal ecology, energy, land-use planning.
Led conference workshop on whistleblower support and served on conference committee of the
New York State Labor-Environment Coalition
Hosted a radio talk show on nuclear energy on WUSB-FM (SUNY-Stony Brook) 1979
Panel discussions and debates — Public Television Channel 21 and Cable News Channel 12 (large suburban audiences) — helped derail vast commercial development schemes backed by Mafia, 1991.
Appointed member of three local government advisory boards on conservation and land-use, 1996-2001. Co-authored (with professional planners) a multi-town study of future transportation options for eastern Long Island.
III. NEWSPAPERS
founder/publisher/coeditor
From 1971 to 2004, served as cartoonist, publisher, co-editor and/or contributor for
various crusading grassroots tabloids on Long Island NY.
starting with the
Moniebogue Press
in 1971-72
available through the National Library of Australia, see
http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/3806920 .
This was followed by
The East End Independent
in 1974,
edited by the famous muckraker Karl Grossman.
In 1976-77, edited
Chain Reaction,
laying foundations for the most successful anti-nuke campaign in the US;
offered a brief history of Green Bans, spearheaded by Aussie construction unions,
in stark contrast to weak, corrupt NY hardhat union leaders attacking environmentalists.
In the following years, rank and file Shoreham construction workers' informal whistleblowing,
and their speaking with neighbors and relatives about design flaws,
were a major factor in the eventual closure of the Shoreham Nuclear Power Station.
Investigative reporter for
The Long Island Foghorn
noted for exposés of Mafia influence on both major political parties and business coalitions.
1987-1994
Other papers
founded, published and/or co-edited
Native Patriot
The Long Island Farm Worker
Peconic Review
Sound Times
and various newsletters of
The Quadrilateral Commission
and
The Silent Spring Lawn Care Crusade
"Death to All Inferior Species"
miscellaneous agitation & propaganda
Cartoons
(some of them originally drawn for those aforementioned little newspapers)
played a fairly significant role in a number of labor, peace and environment campaigns, locally and nationally.
Guest editorials
include a Viewpoints piece for Newsday in the wake of the Exxon Valdez disaster
(picked up by the Los Angeles Times Syndicate),
and a 1990 eco-manifesto in the Asbury Park Press
OSPREY ART CONTRIBUTED BY THE NOTED ORNITHOLOGIST DENNIS PUHLSTON
