Art Director/Designer: New York Times,
The New Yorker, Newsweek, Rolling Stone
Mentor and brilliant painter
Illustrator and professor
Former Chairman: National Endowment
for The Humanities
President, Alligator Records
Author
Sports and celebrity portrait painter
Magician
FRANCES KIERNAN   Author of "Seeing Mary Plain." Former fiction editor of The New Yorker

Illustration may not be what it used to be, but Michael Trossman sure is. His stuff from the past still looks great (see the Vicious and Rotten). And the new stuff looks fresh and full of life. Why is that? It’s because Trossman can actually draw! His work isn’t just traced photographs. When most of today’s magazine illustrations have long since been deleted—his (Michael’s) new drawings and paintings will look just as good in another 20 years.

ROGER BLACK