Comments on: Mark Summers

By: Kyna Moore

Kyna Moore — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:00:09 +0000

Hey!
I am a design student at The International Academy of Design and Technology in Seattle. I am working on an assignment for an Illustration class and was assigned Mark to research for a presentation. I just wanted to say that I have really enjoyed researching his work and have been inspired to keep creating and trying new techniques. I’m really interested in trying out scratchboard!

By: mark summers

mark summers — Sat, 23 May 2009 04:12:55 +0000

Off the top of my head, the stamps would be;
General Stilwell
Hattie Caraway
Claude Pepper
Edna Ferber
Wilma Rudolph
Jonas Salk
Albert Sabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Margaret Chase Smith
James A. Michener
Edward Trudeau
Mary Lasker
And the recent set of four of Abraham Lincoln.

By: Lewis Lombardi

Lewis Lombardi — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 23:23:18 +0000

Hello,

I’m trying to compile a list and a collection of stamps issued by the USPS using the scratchboard technique of Mark Summers.
My search has yet to identify a complete grouping of those issues.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.

By: Charley Parker

Charley Parker — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:13:30 +0000

Mario,

I’m not certain, but I think the Poe illustration shown here was created for Barnes and Nobel as part of a series illustrations of famous authors done for displays in their stores.

The article about this that was at one time on the Barnes and Noble website is no longer available.

By: Mario Rendace

Mario Rendace — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:07:17 +0000

First, excuse my English. In the purpose to write a bibliography on Edgar Allan Poe in Canada, I shall like what’s the newspaper or review the Poe’s caricature of the illustrator Mark Summers have been published, for the first time, thus which the date of publication? Is it possible to buy in poster format this caricature?

By: Ed Bulgrin

Ed Bulgrin — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:14:58 +0000

Great illustration in the new Rolling Stone magazine of Obama. I’m glad to see you’re working. Happy new year!

By: Stephen Hughes

Stephen Hughes — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:17:39 +0000

My wife found a drawing signed by Mark Summers. It might be a print, it might be an original, I do not know. I don’t know if it is the same Mark Summers or not. It looks the style. It is black and white and looks like a tree growing in a river. It has a Scripture: Psalm 1:2,3 written out on the bottom. The back is signed “Mark Summers A Knight of the King. We just want to know who the artist is.

Thanks

By: Charley Parker

Charley Parker — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:20:03 +0000

Thanks for the background, Darryl. Other readers can see Darryl Swiatkowski's portfolio of illustration and digital imaging here.

By: Darryl Swiatkowski

Darryl Swiatkowski — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:52:58 +0000

Mark has been one of my longtime favorite artists. His work has been inspirational since I was a student at Center For Creative Studies in Detroit Michigan (about 15 years ago). I actually had the pleasure of interviewing him over the phone for an Illustration class. A year later he flew to Detroit to present his work at our school. Recently I saw his portrait of President Elect Obama in Rolling Stone Magazine. I’m still inspired.

By: mark summers

mark summers — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 05:01:00 +0000

My birthdate is April &, 1955.
Thanks for the kind comments and interest.