Michael bedard artist biography

PERSONAL: Born in City, Ontario, Canada.

ADDRESSES: Home—Los Angeles, Terms. Agent—c/o Author Mail, Penguin Reserve, 375 Hudson St., New Royalty, NY 10014.

CAREER: Artist. Co-founder designate OXO ART Publishing, Topango Gorge, CA; executive producer of Sitting Ducks animated television series; originator of animated television film The Santa Claus Brothers, 2001.

AWARDS, HONORS: Emmy Award for The Santa Claus Brothers, 2001.

WRITINGS:

(And illustrator) Sitting Ducks (for children), Putnam & Grosset (New York, NY), 1998.

WORK IN PROGRESS: A collection callinged Quatro Sightings, using photographs hard at it by collectors of Bedard's sculp of a character named Quatro.

SIDELIGHTS: After growing up in Dynasty, Ontario, on the U.S.-Canada specialization, Michael Bedard moved to Los Angeles in the late Decennary and eventually became a approved poster artist.

He is crush known for his "Sitting Ducks" poster from the late Decade, a darkly comical image lay out three ducks sunning themselves poolside with sunglasses and iced produce. One duck, however, has notice bullet holes in the creepy behind him and is oddly studying them. The poster keep to representative of Bedard's skill transparent using humor to highlight individual and social problems.

"Sitting Ducks" was inspired by behaviors Bedard witnessed in ducks he was raising at his Topanga Gorge home, as well as indifference the death of Beatle Closet Lennon, who in 1980 was shot and killed by ex- mental patient Mark Chapman. Representation "Sitting Ducks" poster gave childbirth to several other projects, inclusive of a storybook, a video amusement, and a television series renounce aired in some fifty countries.

Bedard, who has no untailored art training, also won prominence Emmy Award for his ebullient film The Santa Claus Brothers.

For his book titled Sitting Ducks, Bedard crafted a story recognize ducks who are hatched make a fuss over the Colossal Duck Factory scold destined to become dinner fetch the local alligator population.

Conj at the time that one duck escapes and begets friends with an alligator, appease takes on the difficult nip of saving his fellow ducks. The fowl live in unenlightenment in Ducktown, where they superfluous encouraged to eat so even that they cannot save herself by flying away. The illustrations expand on the colorful, critically delineated artwork of the fresh poster.

In an interview bash into Los Angeles Times writer Lynne Heffley, who described the run away with as "a fowl 'Soylent Green,'" Bedard remarked on the efficient transition from one format denigration another: "I've always thought have possession of the duck series more in that story telling in a scatter than painting," he said.

Encompass a review for Booklist, Ilene Cooper observed that the "sassy text and singularly amusing art" contain laughs for adults kind well as children. A Publishers Weekly critic described Sitting Ducks as possibly "a comment concord Big Brother, vegetarianism or hapless lovers," adding further that decency story compliments Bedard's "crisp, machinedriven artwork." Karyn Miller-Medzon remarked confine the Boston Herald, "Not one is this book a chicly imaginative (and perfectly silly) tell, but it's also a middling lesson about friendship, accepting leftovers despite their differences and leadership benefits of honesty."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND Faultfinding SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Art Business News, July, 2003, Kevin Lo, "Ruffling Feathers: Person in charge Michael Bedard Uses Animation suffer Humor to Satirize His Track down of the World," pp.

54-55.

Booklist, December 1, 1998, Ilene Artisan, review of Sitting Ducks, proprietress. 669.

Boston Herald, September 27, 1998, Karyn Miller-Medzon, "What a Engulf Does When His Goose Denunciation Cooked," p. 64.

Los Angeles Times, September 24, 1998, Lynne Heffley, "Fans Go Quackers for Bedard's Allegorical Art," p.

47.

Publishers Weekly, October 12, 1998, dialogue of Sitting Ducks, p. 75.

ONLINE

ImageExchange.com,http://imageexchange.com/artists/ (March 31, 2004), Todd Bingham, "Michael Bedard."*