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Greg Clarke

Posted By: Nate Williams
January 30, 2008

Having acquired a degree in art from UCLA at a time when drawing and painting were regarded as quaint relics from the past, Greg is self- taught as an illustrator. While his fellow students were busy pasting found objects to Marxist theory, he was in the art library discreetly poring over old issues of Graphis. After graduating with no marketable skills to speak of, Greg landed a job in the bull pen of a Los Angeles ad agency. They apparently liked his ability to think with a pencil so they soon made him an art director where he faked his knowledge of typography and design (while secretly learning it on the job). He spent a few more years impersonating a designer at various graphic design firms before taking a crack at illustration full time. He's been working more or less steadily ever since.

Greg's work has appeared in Time Magazine, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic Monthly. He's also created images for Target, Volkswagen, Purina, and Lands' End, and is a frequent contributor to Monte Beauchamp's BLAB!, an irreverent comics anthology published annually by Fantagraphics. He lives in Thousand Oaks with his wife and two kids.

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