John Hendrix has got to be one of the hardest-working men in illustration. Not only is he in the Times and the New Yorker a lot, he does tons of prominently featured color work in big national magazines like Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, Harvard Business Review... if it skews male and upscale, Hendrix has illo'd for it. Not that I'm complaining: his work is always fun, mainstream pop culture is clearly his muse and today's featured op-ed subject, the American heartland, is a frequent theme of his. Hendrix's picture of a highway billboard flaunts his flair for lettering and earns charm points with New York readers like me with the line "Hey, city slicker!" For a companion to an op-ed about small-town desperation, this illo is definitely on the sunny side, but then so is Bob Greene's article. Update: Whaddya know, I just found out that John Hendrix is the current art director of the op-ed page.
Andrea, thanks for noticing my drawing on the oped page. I did want to point out that I am not the art director of the op-ed page, but an assistant to Brian Rea, the Sr. Art Director. I would not want to steal his thunder. He is a great illustrator and art director. I've been reading your blog and found it curious, but charming. Glad someone is paying attention.
Posted by: John Hendrix | March 16, 2005 at 05:29 PM