Born in Kopenhagen, Denmark, Hans Jenssen has lived most of his life in the UK and graduated from Medway College of Design in the south east of England in 1984. He has spent much of the intervening time drawing and painting the insides of vehicles, machines and buildings of all kinds. He is best known for his part in illustrating Dorling Kindersley’s best-selling Star Wars Incredible Cross-Sections books.

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When I was seven years old my brother Donn joined the marines. It was 1942. He was fifteen years old. He forged his birth certificate and badgered my father into vouching for him.

At boot camp on Paris Island the DIs knew he was too young and tried to make him quit by being especially hard on him. It made him all the more determined and tough as a pit bull.

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Through forceful, abstract brushstrokes, representing the effect of warfare, intermixed with fragments of the Jack of Spades card, which in my view are symbolic of every soldier, my monoprints celebrate and honor the contribution of each individual veteran to a larger whole.

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Bri Hermanson is a scratchboard illustrator. Clients include Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, SKYY Vodka, Tor Books, Pentagram, Xerox, Philanthropy Magazine, the American Bar Association, Southern Poverty Law Center, Guitar World, Grand Ten Distillery, Llewellyn Worldwide, and Complex Magazine. Her work has been recognized by the Society of Illustrators, American Illustration, Creative Quarterly, Luerzer’s Archive, Applied Arts, the Altpick Awards, the Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles, and the 3×3 Directory.

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Angela graduated from the Scottish College of Textiles in 1994. She worked as a freelance designer and fine artist in Edinburgh until moving to New York in 1995 to become a full time textile designer at various studios. Angela went freelance in 2000 selling original artwork to all the major home, fashion and stationary markets. Her success led her to be offered a full time designing position at the GAP. Angela is currently the Director of Print and Pattern for Baby GAP and Sleep.

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Gail Anderson is a New York-based designer, writer, and educator. She is a partner, with Joe Newton, at Anderson Newton Design.

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YUKO SHIMIZU is a Japanese illustrator based in New York City and instructor at School of Visual Arts. Newsweek Japan has chosen Yuko as one of “100 Japanese People The World Respects” in 2009. Her first self-titled monograph was released world-wide from German publisher Gestalten in 2011. The first childrens book Barbed Wire Baseball (written by Marissa Moss) came out from Abrams in April, 2013.

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His majesty the King of Diamonds sits on his fancy throne, a New York City Park bench. His subjects are the pigeons that flock to him for food to survive even though he has little food for himself. Although he is homeless he sits there with dignity wearing the crown of his uniform knowing that he has served his country well and protected the American way of life. Behind him is his memory as a US soldier with an embattled past that still haunts him and can be seen through the vail of a broken American fence….

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I am currently serving as the Creative Director for Student Affairs Publications at Clemson University with responsibility for planning, developing and directing the Division of Student Affairs informational program, including brand management and communication strategies. I develop, manage and edit communication material for the Division designed to promote and explain Division/department goals, activities and objectives. I develop policies and procedures and serve as a part of the Vice President’s Cabinet Team, advising the VPSA on top-level issues regarding Division reputation and communication. I also advise a student-run, large format print business, based on an academic-intern model, where students work in a learning lab environment with actual clients/jobs. In 1994, I received my BA from Clemson University and in 1996 my MEd. I was honored to be able to be included in the “52 Reasons to Love a Vet” project.

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Born in 1929, Milton Glaser was educated at the High School of Music and Art and the Cooper Union art school in New York and, via a Fulbright Scholarship, the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, Italy where he studied under the painter, Giorgio Morandi. He co-founded the revolutionary Pushpin Studios in 1954, founded New York magazine with Clay Felker in 1968, and teamed with Walter Bernard in 1983 to form the publication design firm WBMG.

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James Bennett began studying art at Bucks County Community College in Pennsylvania. His professional career as an illustrator started soon after receiving recognition from the Society of Illustrators and RSVP as a scholarship student at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

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The King of Hearts playing card has an intriguing, even mysterious image. People have long noticed the King of Hearts’ curious pose. It shows the king holding a sword behind his head. Or is he stabbing himself? Because of his pose the card has been called the suicide king. In tarot, lore the King of Hearts was also known as the King of Chalices.

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Scott Bakal graduated from the School of Visual Arts in NYC in 1993 and since, has been creating art for print and exhibition. Over a decade later, he received a Masters of Arts from Syracuse University and received a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Hartford. At the University of Hartford, he received the Hartford Art School Regent’s Honor Award for Graduate Students, the highest honor given to master’s students throughout the University.

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I have been working as an illustrator for 20 years. For 13 years, from 1994 to 2007, I was an art director at TIME magazine. During that time we covered 9/11, the Iraq War and the invasion of Afghanistan. We published numerous photo essays while our photographers were embedded with American troops. TI ME magazine also covered many of the issues that veterans dealt with upon their return. Many of the photographs I looked while I was an art director showed the effect of war on both soldiers and civilians. They made a big impact on me and has influenced my paintings and illustrations since then. The subject of war and its victims is an undercurrent of much of the work that I am currently making.

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My name is Kenneth Laird and I am an artist, illustrator, designer and creative director from High Point, North Carolina. I received my Masters in Illustration from Syracuse University in 2002 and was taught and trained by many of the men and women in this show. The piece was created using graphite pencil, an actual inlayed photo reproduction and Photoshop for pre-press. As a visual communicator my work has always been representational and very realistic.

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I have been working as a satirical artist, illustrator, caricaturist, journalist, teacher, lecturer for over 40 years. My work almost exclusively concerns itself with commentary in response to news of wars, conflicts, human disasters. The subject of how we treat our servicemen and women is a vitally important one. But how war is sold to young men and women and what they end up sacrificing as a result is, I feel, a very unfair deal. Only when it is too late, when the flags and bands and ribbons are swept away that they see the truth of it; what war truly is. And the price we all pay. As artists it is our job to tell the truth with clarity and conviction to the best of our ability.…

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Ignoring all advice to the contrary, I began my freelance illustration career in 1982, leaving a job in a corporate art department. One of my first regular clients was Outdoor Life magazine, where I slavishly worked to make black and white spot drawings that I got 200.00 for and loved every minute of it. Though I also did an occasional advertising project, most of my work was magazine editorial. Trade magazines, among them The Institutional Investor and some Dow Jones publications, kept me alive for years with regular assignments. Other clients include Sports Illustrated, which gave me a measure of credibility with my family; Smithsonian, Field and Stream, The New York Times and Electra Records.

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Melanie Reim is an award-winning illustrator with a sketchbook never far from her side. Since earning her MFA in Illustration from Syracuse University, she has illustrated for book publishers, advertising agencies, museums, magazines and major corporations. Melanie has taught drawing and illustration on both graduate and undergraduate levels both in the US and abroad….

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Jime Wimmer, MFA in Illustration from Hartford University grew up in rural Pennsylvania. Her father was serving in the Air Force when he met her mother in South Korea. Jime grew up trying to best fit between the two worlds of cultures, American and Korean. Often she disappeared in her sketchbook when kids teased her or when she didn’t quite fit in. Jime was accepted into the School of Visual Arts in NYC in 1996 but could not make it work financially since she was living on her own by the age of 19. Soon, Jime began working in the same factory that her father did growing up. Nine years later she realized she was teaching others how to work in the factory and she decided to return to school to become a teacher, and teach others art. Jime earned her BS in Art Education at Keystone College and furthered her study into Illustration at Hartford where she met her husband.

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The image of the traditional Jack of Diamonds features Jack holding a sword. I wanted to use this image as a backdrop to feature a contemporary soldier. As I was working on the project, I came across an interview on the NPR show, Fresh Air with Marine Corporal Jose Armenta. The interviewee talked about his missions with his dog, Zenet who was specially trained to look for IEDs – improvised explosive devices planted by the Taliban.

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Jeff Fisher is a professional Artist /Illustrator who has worked in the field for over twenty-five years. Jeff ‘s work has been shown in galleries in New York City, Long Island, and Washington, D.C. An award winning artist he has displayed his work in one man as well as group shows. His work has graced the covers of books and magazines, as well as posters, murals and advertisements.

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Daniel Pelavin grew up in Detroit Michigan and began his career in local art studios. From his earliest work, produced with templates, french curves and drafting tools, to a present day virtuosity in digital media, Pelavin has used a restrained and simplified vocabulary of geometric forms, rich, flat colors and typography inspired by a wide range of 20th century ephemera.

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Daniel is an illustrator, a graphic designer, an adjunct professor at Montclair State University and an avid hockey player. He was awarded a silver medal from the Society of Illustrators in New York and has received awards and recognition from American Illustration, Communication Arts, 3×3, Creative Quarterly, and the Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles.

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Chris Sickels, the creative force behind Red Nose Studio, creates an eccentric and inviting miniature world with puppets, textures and light. Red Nose Studio’s illustrations appear in advertising, magazines, books, newspapers, packaging, character development and animation. His work has been featured in HOW, Print, Creativity, Communication Arts, and American Illustration. The Society of Illustrators has awarded three golds and a silver medal for both illustrative and motion work. His stop-motion animated films have screened at various festivals including Los Angeles International Short Film Festival and Montreal Stop-Motion Film Festival. He authored and illustrated The Look Book, and has illustrated the children’s books Here Comes The Garbage Barge, The Beginner’s Guide to Running Away From Home, and The Secret Subway.

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I was born in Newark, New Jersey, 1954. My parents were immigrants, displaced from the wreck of post World War II Eastern Europe. No surprisingly, the first images I remember drawing were those of soldiers and war. My first professionally published piece was in 1974 for the New York Times while I was still studying at Parsons in NYC.

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Stephen graduated from the Falmouth Art School in 1983 and began a career as a freelance illustrator in London straight out of school, also spending many years working a various studios in Germany as a technical illustrator. Stephen moved to New York in 1989 to continue his career and education, he has since became an award winning illustrator, has earned his MFA and is currently an adjunct professor whilst still working in his chosen field.

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Joe has been drawing for as long as he can remember, probably since the age of four. He was born and raised in Staten Island, NY just a short ferry ride to Manhattan where he attended The High School of Art and Design and then Parsons where he earned a BFA degree. A freelance illustrator since 1974, Joe has worked for most major magazines and newspapers as well as for corporate and advertising clients, book publishers and record companies.

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As an artist and commercial illustrator, I am best known for my color and use of light. I use these elements to communicate emotions or concepts for a wide range of assignments: advertising campaigns, adult and children’s books, illustrations for postage stamps and artwork for public spaces.

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The Intoned Call Of The Invisible Piper, pencil on paper, 7 x 10, 2014

I was born in St Paul, Minnesota and grew up in Newark, Delaware. I hold a Master of Fine Arts degree from Montclair State University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting from the University of Delaware. From 2002 to 2009, I served in the United States Marine Corps and completed a tour of combat duty in Iraq as a riverine infantry scout from 2006 to 2007. I am the Director of the Combat Paper NJ program at the Printmaking Center of New Jersey, teach as an Adjunct Professor of Art at Montclair State University, work as an art project consultant and curator, and make art in my Montclair, NJ studio.

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Oil on Board

Lisa Falkenstern has been a professional illustrator for more than thirty years.

She is a Gold Medal winner from the New York Society of Illustrators and won the Platinum Award, Gold Award and Bronze Award for her work from Creativity International. Lisa also won Best in Show and People’s Choice Award at the 2011, 2012, and 2016 NJ SCBWI conference. She has been in gallery shows in New York City, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. In the Focus ON Nature XIV show at the Roger Tory Peterson Institute, her painting of a Tulip Tree won a jury award. She was one of the artists featured in the 2017 illuxcon. She is in the permanent collection of the New York Society of Illustrators and the New York State Museum.

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Digital on Paper

This Paper Ship is an illustration and design company located in a refurbished cotton mill in Saxapahaw, NC run by illustrators Joel and Ashley Selbey where they also live. It was both of their childhood dreams to be independent artists, but they took the leap by necessity when they were preparing to graduate with design degrees during 2008-2009’s difficult economy. When months had gone by without so much as an acknowledgement of their job applications, they decided to create their own jobs.

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Gouache on Illustration Paper

In 1989, Stephen Gardner moved from England to New York to further both his education and his career. His first course of action was to join the Society of Illustrators. The Unforgiven poster, is now a part of the Society of Illustrators’ permanent collection.

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Digital on paper

Leslie Haines is an award winning graphic designer, artist, college professor, and evangelist for the color orange. She has created work for universities, hospitals, country musicians, and film production companies, among others. Now her days are spent training the next generation of designers, and her nights are spent playing with letterpress type, ink, magazines, and her Mac with some chocolate chip cookies close by her side.

Haines created the overview for the Love a Vet II Collection. Her love of typography is clearly at play as is her keen sense of design.

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Silkscreen print

Martin graduated from the Scottish College of Textiles and worked as a freelancer designer and fine artist in Edinburgh before moving to New York City to become a textile designer. As a freelance artist, she has created original artworks for major home, fashion and stationary outlets.

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Gouache on Illustration Paper

When Chuck Pyle arrived at San Francisco’s Academy of Arts University in 1972, hw was an 18-year-old with big plans: Take a few classes at the Academy, then head off to New York, become a famous political cartoonist — and bring down Nixon.

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Gouache on Illustration board

Chad Wallace is an award-winning artist form Westchester, NY. Wallace’s Illustrations often feature animals in their natural environments. Working primarily in a realistic style, Wallace creates believability around his characters even when they are anthropomorphized to a degree. He credits his experiences growing up in rural Northern Westchester and summers in the Lower Hudson Valley for leading him in this direction. Wallace earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts at Syracuse University (1997) and received his Master of Fine Arts degree from FIT (2011). In 2008 he was awarded the Stevan Dohanos Award at the Society of Illustrators, NY for his Animal Olympics - Wrestling piece.

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