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Bill Murray
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; editorial cartoons (Sunday edition) of the Herald newspaper, Sharon, Pa.; freelance work for CNN News and Fox News.
All images Copyrighted Bill Murray 2010. All rights reserved.