Rick Sealock has been creating wild and wacky illustrations for clients as varied as Rolling Stone, Texas Monthly, The Washington Post, Natural Health Magazine, and GQ Magazine. His work has been used to skewer politicians, fitness fanatics, and death. This book, while a retrospective of his life in illustration, is also a how-to guide. How to keep your work fresh. How to deal with pesky and not so pesky clients. How to keep yourself in front of those clients. How to... just buy the book, don't go by the book.

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Rick Sealock is a brashly mannered illustrator with a flair for the wild, wicked and woolly. His Good, Bad and Uber-Ugly advertising, editorial, and publishing images have garnered over 300 illustration awards from such greats as American Illustration, Applied Arts, Communication Arts, Society of Illustrators NY, SILA, and most recently Lurzer’s Archive 200 Best Illustrators worldwide 14/15, 16/17, and 18/19.

His “Hell Bent for Leather” and “Push it to the Edge” attitude has also delighted and educated illustration students for over 25 years. He is one of the few Illustration instructors to have taught at ACAD (Alberta University of the Arts), OCADU, and Sheridan Illustration Department. An apology to those who have tempted trouble for commissioning his work or letting him teach … but hopefully it won them an award! He lives in Canada with his groovy family and two dogs.

Christina Vester is a faculty member in Classical Studies at the University of Waterloo. She lives in Kitchener with her family and two groovy dogs.