PhotoMr. Grossman, though, spent virtually all of his career as a freelance illustrator for hire, and he was hired a lot. Mr. Grossman, he said, gave his work a distinctive look. O-Man’s adventures appeared in The New York Observer, then in The Nation, then on a website Mr. Grossman created to continue them. Mr. Grossman was not about to leave the current goings-on in government unremarked upon. In a 2008 interview with The Tennessean, Mr. Grossman explained why, of the various jobs that fit under the big tent of journalism, he preferred illustrator.

Source: New York Times March 19, 2018 23:26 UTC