Championing the champions of illustration

For those who read this blog and love illustration, I can highly recommend a posting by illustrator Tim O'Brien who points out that Mother Jones magazine has taken a real leadership role in the use of magazine illustration.

This when illustrated covers are said, by some, not to work on newsstands and the cost of illustration is on the block with everything else in cash-strapped times.

While O'Brien says he used to look back fondly on illustrations in old copies of magazines like Fortune, now...

I live in the current market and have come to appreciate places around today that champion our craft and do so with style.

O'Brien's July/August cover for Mother Jones is a painting of smoke swirling up from a joint made of a $100 bill. But most of O'Brien's post celebrates the work of a dozen other illustrators whose work has been put in the magazine's pages by creative director Tim Luddy.

I'd like it if readers of this blog were to comment and suggest Canadian titles that they feel are similarly using illustration, whether on covers or inside.