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Vaccine Jitters? Corlette Douglas ‘14, Illustrates New Children’s Book
“Maxine’s Critters Get the Vaccine Jitters” book cover A new children’s book that helps explain vaccinations to young readers, “Maxine’s Critters Get the Vaccine Jitters,” is illustrated with aplomb by Corlette Douglas, (Illustration ‘14). The main character, the charming and buoyant Maxine, playfully engages with her stuffed animals to help put them at ease about…
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Illustrator and Story-Teller Brian Michael Weaver to Teach This fall
In a world gone buggy…What do you get when you combine a tough-guy detective, a sultry butterfly, a hungry ladybug, a hard-nosed mosquito, a missing pencil box and a tail the size of Brooklyn?… You get incoming Illustration Professor Brian Michael Weaver, aka Neil Numberman! New this fall Prof. Weaver will be teaching Visual Storytelling…
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FIT Faculty Remember Stan Lee
Tributes for comic book writer, editor and publisher Stan Lee flooded social media following news of his passing earlier this month. Lee was responsible, says the The Economist, for turning “a low-rent pulp art form into a pop-culture powerhouse.” Prof. Ray Lago’s Spidey Pin-up for Marvel Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Hulk, the Avengers, Iron Man,…
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Eight FIT students, a record in Society of Illustrators’ competition
Babies of wire confetti, a crowned rabbit, little girls watering topiary, a vet mechanic, and skeletal love, are among the themes of the eight FIT student illustrations selected by the Society of Illustrators Student Scholarship Competition. The field was narrowed from 8,700 entries. According to the Society, the judges made their choices based on “quality of…
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Buddy in space joined by other Inktober characters
“It was Inktober. I was missing my dog. I had a new sketchbook and I was designing characters. It occurred to me that Buddy is a real character I could use.” So started the month of October, or Inktober, for first semester Illustration student David Powers. Buddy would rule the roost of characters. Inktober, a…