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About our Comic Book Cover:
Randy Palmer has been a staff artist at the Dayton Daily News for more than 25 years. Palmer received a degree in commercial art from Sinclair Community College and has earned national awards for illustration and graphic design from organizations that include the Society for News Design, The Associated Press and the Society of Professional Journalists.
Palmer is known for injecting humor into the subjects he illustrates. Here he incorporates images from famous works owned by the Dayton Art Institute, including Peter Paul Rubens "Study Heads of an Old Man" and Edward Hopper's "High Noon," into a comic book cover featuring our historic building. Palmer has been a long-time fan of cartoons and comics. Although he has been a working illustrator for nearly 30 years and has received many awards and accolades, he says he will be professionally unfulfilled until he illustrates a Batman comic book.
While you are here, visit Another Kind of Hero, a selection of illustrations by Randy Palmer on view in The Cafe, presented in collaboration with the Dayton Visual Arts Center, an arts organization that supports artists in the community.
Grab a prop or three and re-create your own tourist moment in front of the DAI comic book cover! Take a photo and post it to the museum's: [facebook] and [flickr] page. |