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Zina Saunders (born August 30, 1953) is a Manhattan-based artist, writer, animator and educator. Her book ''Overlooked New York'', a collection of interviews, profiles and portraits, was published in 2009.
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"Time Capsule": ''Non-Sport Update'' (December 1996-January 1997)
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Zina Saunders at 2009 Gel Conference
Zina Saunders (born August 30, 1953) is a Manhattan-based artist, writer, animator and educator. Her book ''Overlooked New York'', a collection of interviews, profiles and portraits, was published in 2009.
Life and work
A native New Yorker, Zina Saunders is the daughter of illustratorNorman Saunders
Norman Blaine Saunders (January 1, 1907 – March 7, 1989) was a prolific 20th-century American commercial artist. He is best known for paintings in pulp magazines, paperbacks, men's adventure magazines, comic books and trading cards. On occasi ...
.Kasey Burke (February 14, 2014"Illustrator Zina Saunders to talk at WCSU"
''News Times'' (Danbury, CT). Retrieved 2014-03-30. She attended High School of Music and Art and
Cooper Union
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (Cooper Union) is a private college at Cooper Square in New York City. Peter Cooper founded the institution in 1859 after learning about the government-supported École Polytechnique in ...
(dropping out a short way into the course) but also learned much about painting and commercial art from her father. She has illustrated for a variety of publishers (Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster () is an American publishing company and a subsidiary of Paramount Global. It was founded in New York City on January 2, 1924 by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster. As of 2016, Simon & Schuster was the third largest publ ...
, Random House
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, Scholastic Books
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, Oxford University Press
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), while contributing to magazines, including ''The Wall Street Journal
''The Wall Street Journal'' is an American business-focused, international daily newspaper based in New York City, with international editions also available in Chinese and Japanese. The ''Journal'', along with its Asian editions, is published ...
'', '' The New York Times Sunday Book Review'', ''Time Out New York
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In 2012, the London edition becam ...
'' and ''Outré''.
Her book ''Overlooked New York'' (2009) is a collection of interviews, profiles and portraits of diverse New York subcultures and hobbyists. Subjects include amateur astronomers, bike messengers
Bicycle messengers (also known as bike or cycle couriers) are people who work for courier companies (also known as messenger companies) carrying and delivering items by bicycle. Bicycle messengers are most often found in the central business di ...
, carnival costume designers, cricket players, keepers of rooftop pigeon coops, kite flyers, scuba divers, street performers, subway musicians and urban gardeners. The project began in the fall of 2004 with her observation of colorful, decorative bicycles.
In 2010, for ''Mother Jones
Mary G. Harris Jones (1837 (baptized) – November 30, 1930), known as Mother Jones from 1897 onwards, was an Irish-born American schoolteacher and dressmaker who became a prominent union organizer, community organizer, and activist. She h ...
'', she began creating regular weekly animations (which feature Saunders doing the voices of all the characters).
In November 2009, ''Overlooked New York'' was published as a book, collecting more than 60 of the profiles and portraits.
Awards
Saunders' updated design of thePink Panther
''The Pink Panther'' is an American media franchise primarily focusing on a series of comedy-mystery films featuring an inept French police detective, Inspector Jacques Clouseau. The franchise began with the release of the classic film ''The Pink ...
character for United Artists brought her an award from ''Print'' and her ''Native Americans'' trading card set of 106 illustrations was chosen Most Creative Trading Card Set by the trade magazine ''Non-Sport Update''./ref> She has contributed to numerous trading card sets, including ''
Wacky Packages
''Wacky Packages'' are a series of humorous trading cards featuring parodies of consumer products. The cards were produced by Topps beginning in 1967, first in die-cut, then in peel-and-stick sticker format. There were 16 series produced betwe ...
'', ''Magic: The Gathering
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'' and ''Goosebumps
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''.
Excerpts from "Art Talks," her series of portraits and interviews with illustrators and art directors, are featured in ''Illo'' magazine. Portraits from that series are in ''American Illustration 26 Annual'' and ''American Illustration 27 Annual''. Five of her portraits were selected for the ''Communication Arts Illustration Annual 2008''. Four pages in ''Graphic: Inside the Sketchbooks of the World's Great Graphic Designers'' by Steven Heller and Lita Talarico (Monacelli Press, 2010) demonstrate how her sketches evolve into digital paintings.
Saunders has taught illustration at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
See also
List of illustrators
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See also
*List of caricaturists
*List of cartoonists
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References
Watch
Zina Saunders at 2009 Gel Conference
External links
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