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Online Gallery features:
Doug Cushman
October 1, 2005 through October 30, 2005
Doug Cushman was born in Springfield, Ohio and moved to Connecticut with his family when he was 14 years old. While in junior high and high school he created comic books lampooning his teachers, selling them to his classmates for a nickel a piece.
Since 1978 he has illustrated over 100 children's books, twenty or so of which he wrote as well. Among his many honors he has gained a place on the New York Times Children's Best Sellers list and on the 2003 Children's Literature Choice list. He has received a National Cartoonist's Society Reuben award and a 2004 Christopher Award for his book illustrations. He is a fan of mystery novels and enjoys cooking, eating and absorbing French culture and inspiration, as well as a few extra kilos, in his new part-time home in Paris, France.
In the many well-received picture books Doug Cushman has written and illustrated, his emphasis on character is evident in both text and artwork. As he once commented: "A good character will almost write a book by himself with a little nudge or two from the author." Of course pictures, too, play an important role. The inspirations of many stories have been born with a scribbled character in a sketch book or a café napkin. From there on it's a process of moving characters and plot around, adding subtracting, throwing out, rewriting. "It's a very physical process," Cushman has said. "My first dummies are almost collages with scraps of paper taped all over the pages. Words and pictures must work together in unison, one not more important than the other. In the end, of course, it's always story, story, story."
See more of Doug Cushman's artwork at http://www.doug-cushman.com
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Archive: Previous artists presented in this Online Gallery
| Nancy Barnett | North/Central | April 2003 |
| Carol Benioff | East Bay | May 2003 |
| Cindy Ann Ganaden | South San Francisco | June2003 |
| Deborah Nourse Lattimore | North/Central | July 2003 |
| Sara Iravani Kahn | South San Francisco | September 2003 |
| Elisa Kleven | North/Central | October 2003 |
| Jan Adkins | North/Central | November 2003 |
| Joy Allen | North/Central | December 2003 |
| Yuyi Morales | East Bay | January 2004 |
| Liz Cunningham | East Bay | February 2004 |
| Brooke Scudder | South San Francisco | March 2004 |
| Paula Pertile | South San Francisco | April 2004 |
| South San Francisco | May 2004 | |
| South San Francisco | July 2004 | |
| Kris Aro McLeod | North/Central | August 2004 |
| Sherry Rogers | North/Central | September 2004 |
| Barbara Pollak | East Bay | October 2004 |
| Kirsten Carlson | North/Central | November 2004 |
| Jeff Jackson | South San Francisco | December 2004 |
| Elly Simmons | North/Central | January 2005 |
| Bob Barner | South San Francisco | February 2005 |
| Lea Lyon | East Bay | March 2005 |
| Lin Wang | South San Francisco | April 2005 |
| Kieren Dutcher | East Bay | May 2005 |
| Karen Stanton | South San Francisco | June 2005 |
| Connie McLennan | North/Central | July 2005 |
| Liz Amini Holmes | South San Francisco | August 2005 |
| Diana Thewlis | North/Central | September 2005 |
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