What reputation he has rests on a handful of short stories he illustrated in 1954 and 1955 for EC comics (the folks who brought you Tales from the Crypt and Mad), but one of those stories, "Master Race," was an accomplishment of the highest order — a masterpiece.
His art accompanied texts by adult authors as well, including the sportswriter Red Smith, with whom he collaborated on "How to Get to First Base: A Picture Book of Baseball" (1952), and James Thurber, whose fantasy novella "The 13 Clocks" he illustrated in 1950.
"A lot of beliefs of the metaphysical aspects of that religion, especially for me, as a kid, he illustrated in 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.' Christian Science advocates the idea that the physical world is not real, and part of our journey is to transcend that reality through Christ-like living".
The same author included him among the rulers and saints whom he illustrated in his Stemmatographia.
He also saw the effects on children, as he illustrated in explaining to us the origins of the term "kwashiorkor" malnutrition.
By using performers with different levels of experience, Maxwell shows what he usually illustrates in his text: that if you're reducing theatre to its essence, something has to go, like the hard sheen of show biz, where nothing breaks a professional actor down like applause.
Obama never discusses this faith in strictly legal terms, but he illustrates it in The Audacity of Hope when he describes what he calls an "empathy deficit".
And he illustrates why, in the corporate climate of the 90's, truth-telling is a riskier business than it was circa "All the President's Men".
He illustrates by explaining in detail just what is involved in rebuilding a Volkswagen engine.
Johnson feeds all the data into a giant spreadsheet and produces detailed research reports that he illustrates with his own in-store photos.
