{"id":4903,"date":"2021-02-01T09:25:23","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T09:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/art\/?p=4903"},"modified":"2022-02-22T22:32:27","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T22:32:27","slug":"guy-billout-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/art\/2021\/02\/guy-billout-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Guy Billout"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Visiting Artist Lecture<\/h3>\n
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Wednesday, February 10, 2021, 1:00 am
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Guy Billout has been called the Buster Keaton of the illustration world. His works are funny, acrobatic feats of mental agility that challenge the laws of logic. His characters retain composure no matter what; impending doom does not unnerve them; and under the dark humor, optimism prevails. In 2016, Billout received the highest honor: he was inducted into the Society of Illustrator\u2019s Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n

He was born and educated in France and moved to Paris in the 1960s to work in advertising design. He came to the U.S. in 1969 as an inexperienced illustrator with an improvised, unique portfolio, presented to Milton Glaser at New York <\/em>magazine. Glaser loved his work and published it in its entirety.<\/p>\n

For 24 years Billout created a stand-alone page in The Atlantic <\/em>magazine, in full-color, with total editorial freedom. His client list includes Esquire, Rolling Stone, Time, Newsweek, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The New Yorker. <\/em>He is the recipient of many awards, among them the Hamilton King Award and The New York Times<\/em> \u201cTen Best Illustrated Children\u2019s Books\u201d for five years. At his Hall of Fame induction, Billout was described as \u201cmore than an illustrator, a compassionate poet of the absurd.\u201d<\/p>\n

View more of his work HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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