This American Life
A fun assignment for This American Life illustrating the archived episode “Show Me the Way” about a 15-year-old running away from home to ask fantasy author Piers Anthony, a person he’s never met or spoken to, if he can live with him.
The sketches were designed to be a visual blur between the world of Anthony’s paperback fantasy novels and the young Logan Hill’s1987 journey from North Carolina to Florida.
AD Julie Whitaker
A couple more illustrations from earlier this year for This American Life. The first, above, "Swtiched at Birth," we follow the lives of two families whose daughters were born in the same hospital on the same day in 1951 in Wisconsin. The aspects of shifting crossover/symmetry in their lives jumped out as key to represent in the drawing.
The second piece, "Chip in My Brain," a new episode premiering earlier this year, we follow a seemingly mundane series of events over ten years of childhood as Cody Treybig. The episode is fascinating and unexpected, I highly recommend listening to it. Process sketches below.
Thanks again AD Whitney Dangerfield.