Overlooked New York
the 8" X 10" full color,
184-page book
is available on Amazon
for $25
Click to buy it here
Zina
Saunders has been a writer-illustrator for more than 15 years.
In addition to contributions in a variety of periodicals (including
The Wall Street Journal, The Progressive, The
Nation, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Foreign Policy Magazine),
her client list includes Chronicle Books, Simon & Schuster,
Random House, Scholastic, and Oxford University Press.
In June 2005, her focus shifted from general illustration
to reportage illustration, when she wrote a story for Time
Out New York magazine about the Puerto Rico Schwinn Club,
an outgrowth of the Overlooked
New York website, her series of interviews and portraits
of impassioned New Yorkers which regularly attracts more than 35,000 hits a month. She wrote and illustrated another
feature in the August 4th issue of Time Out New York magazine,
profiling Central Park portrait artists. Overlooked New
York was selected for the 3x3 ProShow Illustration
Annual No. 4 and is now a book available on Amazon.
Blackboard
Heroes, her series of portraits and interviews with dedicated
teachers across the US, was featured in Scholastic's Instructor
Magazine, and excerpts from Art
Talks, her series of portraits and interviews with illustrators
and art directors, appears in every issue of ILLO magazine and was selected for the American Illustration
26 Annual. Another portrait from that series was in the American
Illustration 27 Annual, and five of her portraits have been
selected for inclusion in both the Communication Arts Illustration
Annual 2008 and the 3 X 3 ProShow Illustration Annual No.
5.
Her
series of political satires, The
Party's Over, was selected for the Society of Illustrators
Annual; the series was also selected for the Applied Arts
2009 Annual and chosen for the American Illustration 28 Annual.
One of the series was also included in the New York Times
Gallery 7 exhibit chronicling political caricatures over the
last 40 years. You can buy the 40-page
full color book here.
Zina is the daughter of pulp magazine artist Norman
Saunders, who painted some of the most popular bubblegum
cards from the 60's and 70's, including Mars Attacks, Batman,
and Wacky Packages. As a child, she got her first taste of
being a professional illustrator when she would "correct"
her father's paintings, when he was away from his drawing
board. Many an eyelash on Norm Saunders' damsels in distress
was painted by a nine-year-old Zina.
Zina lives and works in New York City, where she grew up and
attended Music and Art High School and The Cooper Union. She
left Manhattan in her teens to be a levitating lady with
a traveling circus in upstate New York, but eventually returned
to her senses and her beloved city.
If you're interested in knowing more, she maintains a blog
on the illustrator blogsite, Drawger,
that features her works-in-progress and outside projects.
You can also read more in the Wikipedia
article about Zina and she maintains a portfolio on illoz.com.
If
you're interested in buying limited edition prints of Zina's
work, please email her.
If you'd like see Zina in action, here's a video of her presentation at the 2008 Gel Conference.
Email Zina here
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...and here's a twitter link
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