Kevin Pope: Artwork That Tells Stories


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Kevin Pope. Photo by Martin Boling

Cartoonist Kevin Pope has illustrated for Playboy magazine, the Chicago Tribune, Mad Magazine, the NBC animated show Sammy, Pepsi TV commercials, and the comics Inside Out and The Far Side.

These days, Pope is creating finer art. Applying acrylic paints and found objects on birch planks or vintage stationary, Pope creates vignettes of imagined 1930s’ scenes—a railroad station, a jazz group, a farmer and his wife.

“I’ve continued on artwork that hopefully has the ability to tell stories, with a bit of humor, while embracing vintage Americana,” Pope says.

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