5th Drawer

There's No People Like Snow People
Photoshop
Greeting Card
2010
© Bill Basso

                                                             It's the Bioloigist's Birthday
                                                                          Photoshop
                                                                               2011
                                                                                                      © Bill Basso

BAT BONES AND SPIDER STEW by Michelle Poploff
pen and  acrylic ink
A Yearling First Choice Chapter Book
Bantam Doubleday Dell
1998

Things are not as they seem in the Balkans
pen and ink marker and watercolor
Esquire Magazine
1974


( I recall being inspired by Mark Alan Stamaty (WHO NEEDS DONUTS) and a H.S. classmate of mine, Ron Barrett ( OLD MACDONALD HAD AN APARTMENT HOUSE }
Both artists had an acute attention to humorous detail in their amazing art 
that really got me going at the time. )
                                                                                                      

TRUE BUT STRANGE by Christina Wilsdon
pen ink and acrylic inks
Kid City Magazine
CTW (Sesame Workshop)
1988-2000

"Hey man! This Amish Country?"
pen and ink marker and watercolor
Esquire Magazine
1977

TOP OF THE PIZZAS by Bill Basso
pen and ink, watercolor and 4 color overlays
Dodd Mead
1977
( My first book as an author during my big nose period.
To my surprise, it was enthusiastically reviewed by Gene Shalit on the Today Show. )

Alphabet Picture Puzzle
pen and watercolor
Puzzlemania
Highlights For Children
1996

                                                           What's Wrong With This Game
                                                                     pen and watercolor
                                                                      Kid City Magazine
                                                                           mid 1990s

A Chance Meeting of Princesses
pen and ink
DRAGON SLAYER'S ACADEMY by Kate McMullan
Grosset & Dunlap
2004

The Case Of The Stolen Jewels
Encyclopedia Brown Mystery 
by Donald J. Sobel
prismacolor pencil and watercolor
Boy's Life Magazine
Boy Scouts of America
1988

The Case of the Double Headed Toothbrush
Encyclopedia Brown Mystery
by Donald Sobel
prismacolor pencil and acrylic inks
Boy's Life Magazine
Boy Scouts of America
1989

Encyclopedia Brown
pencil and acrylic inks
Boy's Life Magazine
Boy Scouts of America
1999

EMBARRASSING MOMENTS IN SPORTS

pen and acrylic ink

Boy's Life Magazine

Boy Scouts of America

2000

Ben Franklin Picks Turkey For National Bird

pen and acrylic ink

TRUE BUT STRANGE by Christina Wilsdon

Kid City Magazine

CTW ( Sesame Workshop)

!988-2000

My Favorite Monsters

prismacolor pencil and acrylic ink

Boy's Life Magazine

Boy Scouts of America

1994

Outdoorsy Presidents

prismacolor pencil and watercolor

Boy's Life Magazine

Boy Scouts of America

early 1990s

( Presidents Truman, Ford, Bush Sr, Kennedy, T. Roosevelt,

Eisenhower and Carter )

CAMPAIGN '92

pen and acrylic ink

Weekly Reader

cover

1992

clockwise

Fr. Gov. Jerry Brown, Gov. Bill Clinton, Pres. George H. W. Bush,

Sen. Bob Kerrey, Sen. Tom Harkin, David Burke, Fr. Sen. Paul Tsongas,

Fr. Sen. Eugene McCarthy and Pat Buchanan 

ELECTION '92

pen and acrylic inks

Weekly Reader

cover

1992