Jim McDermott (illustrator)

Jim McDermott (illustrator)

Jim McDermott (June 24, 1960, Lowell, Massachusetts) is a New Hampshire-based artist who has illustrated for animation, magazines and comic books.

After graduating in 1982 from Boston's New England School of Art and Design (now part of Suffolk University), McDermott headed West where he held a position as the staff illustrator for a publishing firm before entering the animation industry. For Columbia Pictures Television/DiC Entertainment's animated "The Real Ghostbusters" (1986-91), McDermott created concept drawings and designed characters, props and backgrounds. Leaving California after a decade, he did freelance work in Texas before returning to New England in 1993.

When the rates of famed caricaturist Bruce Stark became so high that Salem Sportswear (Hudson, New Hampshire) could no longer afford his illustrations for T-shirt designs, the company hired McDermott as a replacement, viewing him as the only illustrator capable of doing artwork similar to Stark and Jack Davis.

Promotional posters

For Gregg Press McDermott created a Western saloon poster to promote the books of Louis L'Amour and Max Brand, followed by a science fiction montage to sell Frank Herbert and Robert A. Heinlein.

Magazines and comic books

His work for comic books has appeared in "GrimJack", "Omega Men" and "Heavy Metal". "Video Games & Computer Entertainment" and "TurboPlay" featured his cover paintings and interior illustrations of video game characters.Books with his illustrations include "The Stephen King Encyclopedia". His client list also includes Apple Computer, Blackthorne Publishing, Eternity Comics, Fidelity Investments, Fizz, Fruit of the Loom, IBM, Little Golden Books and Wang Laboratories.

Current work

He became a member of the Seacoast Art Association in 1997. Currently, he posts a continual flow of his recent work on his blog, Denizens of the Darkness. In recent years, he has produced numerous portraits of 20th-century personalitlies, including Lon Chaney, Sr., Elaine Dundy. Marilyn Manson and O. O. McIntyre. Many of his recent portraits are posted on his blog, Denizens of the Darkness.

ee also

*List of illustrators

External links

* [http://jimdraw.blogspot.com/ Denizens of the Darkness]
* [http://www.jimmcdermott.com/ Illustrations by Jim McDermott]
* [http://www.myspace.com/jimdraw MySpace: Jim McDermott]
* [http://home.comcast.net/~turboplay-magazine-archives-tg16/ "TurboPlay" magazine archives]


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