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Category Archives: Illustration
Friday Five – Number One Hundred Twenty Seven
One hundred twenty seventh in a continued series creating a collage using five elements.
Posted in Collage, Friday Five, Illustration
Tagged collage, digital collage, Friday Five, La Choy, vintage
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It’s Pixels Versus Pigments, Again
The late, great Dan Love was a good friend and a technological guru who pushed me kicking and screaming into new computers and gadgets I never realized I needed until I started to use them. He was passionate about computers … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration, Pixels Versus Pigment, Technique
Tagged Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo, analog, Apple, Bristol Board, brush, cartoon hippie, Dan Love, digital illustration, Hippie, Illustration, ink, iPad, Joe Williams, Mac, pen, Procreate, sketchbook, USA, Willceau
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Cosmic Maaaaaannnnn Returns Again!
Cosmic Maaaaaannnn has returned to celebrate my darling wife’s birthday! We first met this star traveler during our crystal anniversary and again on Tina’s birthday ten years ago. Happy birthday, Tina!
Friday Five – Number One Hundred Twenty Six
One hundred twenty sixth in a continued series creating a collage using five elements.
The Wonder of White Bread
This was another cartoon spot illustration that I did for The Philadelphia Daily News as part of “The Secret Life of Food.” It ran with the shivering banana that I featured here at Willceau Illo News recently. Similar to the … Continue reading
Posted in Blast from the Past, Illustration, Pixels Versus Pigment
Tagged 1996, analog, bread, Cartoon, freelance, Illustration, Joe Williams, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Daily News, USA, Willceau
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Artists’ Corner
This was a little cartoon I did when I worked at Taws which was an art supply store located in Center City Philadelphia. This was for a short-lived newsletter published by the store called 100% Rag. I thought I had … Continue reading
Posted in Blast from the Past, Illustration, Philadelphia
Tagged 1527 Walnut, art supplies, artist, Cartoon, defunct, Joe Williams, newsletter, out of business, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, store, Taws
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Chambers of Commerce – Eat, Drink and Be Merry!
Long before fine dining in Philadelphia took place in makeshift shacks made of forklift palette wood and plastic tarpaulins haphazardly situated on the pavements and streets outside of the actual brick-and-mortar restaurants, people read newspapers. They were actual newsprint newspaper … Continue reading
Posted in Blast from the Past, Illustration, Pixels Versus Pigment
Tagged 1997, analog, Cartoon, cartoons, humor, Illustration, Joe Williams, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, restaurant, The Philadelphia Daily News, USA
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Chambers of Commerce – Get a Tattoo!
Back when tattoos were still novel and newspapers had readers and thus advertising revenue and thus budgets to hire freelance artists, I did this cartoon for The Philadelphia Daily News. My illustrations accompanied an article entitled Chambers of Commerce which … Continue reading
Lost and FOUND!
A little digging turned up the tear sheet featuring the shivering banana from yesterday’s post. It was for an article in the The Philadelphia Daily News titled “The secret life of food,” and it was published on August 28, 1996. … Continue reading


