Wall Street – 2, Washington -1
Here are a few spots from the past month, two for The Wall Street Journal, one for The Washington Post. This first one was for the WSJ Europe Edition, about space junk. I thought I was finished when I got here…
…but it felt pretty blah. So I added some space whoosh, then a little spot color and…done.
This one was about the outlook for the bond bubble. I sent both of these and the full color version ran.
As I mentioned in a previous post, I have a regular assignment for The Washington Post’s Sunday Jobs cover. The illustration is paired with a job market Q&A feature called How to Deal. This Q was from a young woman seeking advice on how to tell prospective employers that she left her last job to follow her boyfriend to a new city for grad school. I definitely had fun with this one – nothing too cerebral, just mixing and matching romance cliches with office imagery. I sent these five sketches feeling pretty darn good about all of them:
And here is the final:
This isn’t my usual thing, but it just seemed so right for the story, and the art director and editor were all in agreement. This style of comic imagery is perfect for satire – there is so much melodrama built into them already and everyone gets that, it’s automatic, instant.