Glynis Sweeny

Glynis Sweeny (born 1962) is an American illustrator and caricaturist who is known for lampooning political and business figures in newsweekly magazines.

Sweeny graduated with a degree in graphic design from Rochester Institute of Technology and soon became a staff designer and illustrator for The Detroit News. In 1995, during the long Detroit Newspapers strike, Sweeny moved back to New York to focus on her publishing clients in the area. Her client roster includes Time Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, The Village Voice, The New York Times, TV Guide, Comedy Central, The Atlantic, Fortune, The Los Angeles Times, and The Boston Globe. [http://www.gsweeny.com/about] She also illustrated the cover for the book, "The Hammer Comes Down," a biography of Tom DeLay.

Sweeny works in wax-based colored pencil and uses a burnishing technique for her illustrations to create color depth. Increasingly her works contain a mixture of pencil illustration and computer-based illustration.

Sweeny has appeared in the Society of Illustrators, RSVP, American Illustration, and Communication Arts juried annuals and has won illustration awards from the Society of Newspaper Design and the Society of Professional Journalists.

External links

* [http://www.gsweeny.com Glynis Sweeny's Official Site]
* [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/pdf/20070423_essay.pdf Essay: "Eight Again," "Time," April 23, 2007.]