Ross Macdonald

Ross MacDonald's illustrations have appeared in newspapers and magazines all over the world, including the New York Times, the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Harper's, and Atlantic Monthly. He is also a contributing artist for Vanity Fair magazine. He has written and illustrated several children's and adult humor books. He has also written several New York Times Op Ed page pieces, and his writing has been published on VF, MotherJones, and Tor His illustration work was the subject of a one man retrospective at the New York Times, and has been honored by American Illustration, 3x3, Print, Communication Arts, the Society of Publication Designers, the AIGA, and the Society of Illustrators, from which he received a gold medal for book illustration in 2011. He has also worked on many movies and television shows as an illustrator, prop designer and fabricator and consultant on period design, printing, paper and documents. His work can be seen on 5 seasons of HBO's Boardwalk Empire, on the Cinemax series The Knick, as well as in National Treasure: Book of Secrets, The Wizard of Lies, Joy, Silver Linings Playbook, The Hateful Eight, John WIck, Parks and Recreation, Paterno, The Night Of, and many others. Born and raised in Canada, he lives in Connecticut with his wife, 2 kids, 2 dogs, 5 cats and a large collection of 19th century type and printing equipment.