Cartoonist/Illustrator Bill Murray drew the very first picture he can ever remember drawing when he was in kindergarten. It was a picture of the Mickey Mouse. And when he finished it, he gave it to the principal of his school who hung it on the wall of his office for the rest of the school year.Bill's fate was sealed. From then on, he knew he was going to be an artist.
My Children's Picture Book " Under African Skies " July 30th 2010
Bill Murray & four year - old Daughter Cheyanne.
Bill started his career as an illustrator in the early 1970’s, as a teenager working with the Johnson Publishing Company, the publishers of Ebony and Jet magazines. Murray earned his bachelor of fine arts degree in visual communications from the Institute of Art, Chicago, Illinois. Reading to his four-year-old daughter, Cheyanne (in photo above), inspired him to illustrate children’s books. ( Under African Skies ) First in a series of books that will follow in 2011.
Murray’s first feature was “Those Browns,” a cartoon series that Sammy Davis, Jr., distributed from 1975 to 1981. After creating Adam & Eve, A.D., a comic book, Murray hired Kevin Eastman, creator of the Ninja Turtles, to design the cover of his first issue in 1985. Highly successful, Adam & Eve, A.D was distributed internationally and issues are now collector’s items.
As a syndicated cartoonist-flash animator -illustrator, Murray has created cartoons for print and broadcast media: Real Times, Inc. (that bought Sengstacke Enterprises, Inc.); DBR Media; Freelance Artist for the Herald newspaper, Sharon, Pa.; freelance work for: CNN News, Fox News, Freedom Greeting Cards, National Urban League, USA Today, Pages, Ebony Magazine, Realtimes Media, Inc., DBR Media, Inc. Nefu Books.
All images Copyrighted Bill Murray 2011. All rights reserved.