Norman Eastman 1967

Cover illustration from "Man's Magazine." I never said these paintings were in good taste! By the late 1990's Eastman was forced out of the commercial business and headed for a career as a California-based fine artist. I simply don't know how well that worked since I lost his e-mail address at about that time.

George Thompson who used to live in Manhattan where he produced art for Business Week, Scholastic and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine in now living in rural Pennsylvania and attempting a similar transition. He explainns: "I went from doing 80 jobs a year to nothing for the first six months after 9/11. The business has never really come back... He reminds himself that "America has a history of artists who started out as illustrators: John Sloan, Winslow Homer, Frederic Remington - it's just a way of making money with your art."