Gary Hallgren - Studio #209
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So, what do you want to know? Academic credentials? The list is short—BA in painting and design, Western Washington State College (now WWU) 1968. I have guest lectured at UMass and UC Berkeley. That’s it.
Professional history? That’s different… As you can tell by the graduation date above, I have been at the free-lance art game a longish time.
I trained as a part-time signwriter while I was a student and received my journeyman’s papers In Seattle in 1969 and subsequently joined designer Doug Fast to form Splendid Sign Company. Splendid was an immediate success with its mix of Art Nouveau and psychedelic design…signs of the times, so to speak.
In 1971 I succumbed to entreaties from cartoonist Dan O’Neill (Odd Bodkins, Chronicle Features Syndicate) to come to San Francisco and join a radical cartooning studio whose purpose was to savagely parody the Disney ouvre . Oh, yeah, that was a smart career move. What was I thinking???!!! Oh, hell, it’s too late now. The subsequent product, Air Pirates Funnies #1 and #2 and other titles from the group did indeed cause trouble as Disney sent a wolf-pack of lawyers after us. This was not all bad, though, as the editors at National Lampoon and other publications looked with favor on such shenanigans. The free-lance cartoon and illustration business was off and running. The lawsuits were finally put to rest in 1979, the year I moved to New York City. There the illustration game was very good to me and I contributed to many major magazines and newspapers. You want to buy an old illustration original? I have lots of them. Below is an appendix of sorts with some high spots. Currently the magazine illustration pendulum has swung away from all but a few anointed so I do books—some successful, some not-- and ghost on a couple of syndicated strips and paint at the easel. See the gallery for my hot-shit cartoon paintings.
Air Pirates Funnies #1,1971.
Comic strip contributions.
Air Pirates Funnies #2, 1971.
Cover, part 1 of Tortoise And The Hare story.
Tortoise And Hare, 1971.
Covers, parts 1 and 2 of Tortoise And Hare.
National Lampoon, 1976.
Create monthly series Four For A Quarter.
Swank. 1980.
Create monthly comics serial Mustang Sally.
New York Times, 1980.
Ronald Reagan trims Ivy League.
Debut appearance in NYT.
Topps Gum Co.
Create and paint 55-card series Weird Wheels
National Lampoon, 1982, Do It Yourself.
Best Cover, Print Magazine Casebook 6.
Business Week. 1987, Hello Anywhere.
Best cover, Newspaper Guild Of NY
Marvel Comics, Mort, The Dead Teenager, 1991-2.
Provide covers and illustrate four-book mini-series (written by Larry Hama.)
Esquire, 1996
Redesign of Esky mascot. Used in illustrated column.
Details, 1997
Design and illustrate new character The Style Guy for monthly column.
Scatalog, by Sean Kelly and Balloon Knot productions
Simon and Schuster, 2003
Where’s Saddam? Henry Beard and John Boswell
Broadway Press 2003.
(with Ron Barrett).
Suddenly Southern by Maureen Duffin-Ward
Simon and Schuster, 2004
YOU The Owner’s Manual by Michael Roizen and Mehmet C. Oz.
HarperCollins 2004. Illustrations.
YOU The Smart Patient by Michael Roizen and Mehmet C. Oz.
Free Press, 2006. Illustrations.
YOU On A Diet, by Michael Roizen and Mehmet C. Oz.
Free Press, 2006. Illustrations.
Wait, there’s more…no, forget it. Google if you care.
Magazines and Newspapers I have stained:
National Lampoon
Fortune
Business Week
Time
Money
Inc
Forbes
New York
High Times
Hustler
Newsweek
Oui
Chic
Your Money
Screw
Popular Computing
Cheri
VARBusiness
Entertainment Weekly
Men’s Health
Vanity Fair
Cosmopolitan
Glamour
New York Times Sunday magazine
New York Times
New York Newsday
Boston Globe
Hartford Courant Magazine
New York Daily News
Washington Post
Wall Street Journal
UN News
CoEvolution Quarterly
Conde Nast Traveler
Adweek
Games
Nickelodeon
Disney Adventures
Louisville
City (SF)
Cuisine
Texas Monthly
Utah
Cleveland
Consumer Reports
Rosie
Howard The Duck
Sales & Marketing Management
Floor Covering Business
NYLIC Review
Electronic Business
Start Your Own Business
Franchise
Marketing & Media Decisions
World Review
Bankers Monthly
Philadelphia Lawyer
Mercedes
Internet
Geo
Investment Vision
Working Woman
Working Mother
Avenue
Ramparts
Medical Economics
New Choices
Kids Discover
Mad
Mad Kids
Crazy
I’m getting tired of this…you too?
Other than free-lancing cartoons, my life is boringly sane…married 30 years, daughter graduates college soon, I fix house and yard, collect Studebakers, golden age comics art and friends’ art, play saxophone, drink beer and chase trains. Paint. Could use a little more money. See lists above for implied catalog of used art for sale.
Contact:
4 Open Square Way
Studio 209
Holyoke MA 01040
413-535-3030
News
More faux-medical work by that sly dog, Gary!
YOU On A Diet, the third collaboration by M.D.s Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz with illustrations by Gary Hallgren will be published by Simon and Schuster this October 2006.
YOU, The Owner’s Manual, the first of the series has been a best seller since its release in 2004, and its followup in 2005, YOU The Smart Patient, is doing extremely well also. It might seem strange to have humorous illustrations in serious health books, but it works.
Gary’s paintings are on exhibit at the 2nd floor Gallery, 4 Open Square, most of the time.
Drop by whenever, if you can’t make one of the Artists at Open Square open studio weekends.
Next OPEN STUDIOS: October 6, 7, 8. 2006.
Thursday evenings
Thursday evenings Gary can often be found at The River St. Café In Orange, MA, sitting in on baritone sax with the fabulous Reprobate Blues Band.
Old News...
This is old news now, but a lifetime goal was achieved a few years ago when I was officially listed as a member of “The Usual Gang Of Idiots” on the masthead at Mad Magazine.
Artists at Open Square
Who are we?
We are creative people with studios at Open Square in downtown Holyoke. We are a diverse group: painting, illustration, sculpture, pottery, photography, fashion design, web and graphic design; plus a theater company, and ballet studio. We believe in the future of downtown Holyoke and are excited to be part of the re-birth of this wonderful historic city.
What is Open Square?
Open Square is an exciting new mixed-use urban community on 8-1/2 acres in the heart of Holyoke's Historic Canal District.
Artist Spaces Available
Warm exposed brick, plenty of natural light, canals, wood floors, high speed internet connections and affordable space: this is what Open Square has to offer.