Daryl Cagle's Resume
Publishing
I draw and write the daily newspaper panel cartoon, TRUE!, which is syndicated nationally by Tribune Media Services and internationally by Editors Press Service. I have illustrated books for Ballantine (Random House), Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Western Publishing (Golden Books), Berkley Books and Scholastic. Artwork for many magazines including: Fortune, Forbes, Field and Stream, Family Circle, Sports Illustrated for Kids, Sesame Street, Electric Company, Argus Publishing; Guideposts, Plain Truth, Youth, Muppet Magazine, Zillions (Consumer Reports for Kids), TennisMatch, Inside Sports and Scholastic magazines.
This is a list of some of the companies that I have worked with, along
with some products that I have invented, developed, designed or illustrated:
Hasbro: Kenner's My Magic Genies; Classic Kermit doll packaging,
Baby Kermit and Piggy jack in the boxes, Miss Piggy Talking Telephone; Fisher-Price,
conceptual design of various products; Mattel, designs for the See
'n Say line; Disney preschool, Hot Wheels, dolls, games and other toys;
Playskool/Tommee Tippee: Peek n' Plays, jigsaw puzzles and Lift n'
Look Puzzles; Milton Bradley game designs; Hudson Soft (Nintendo
game packaging); Worlds of Wonder (little BIG rigs); Ertl,
(designs for Bumble Ball); .
Binney and Smith (color rubs, coloring plates, Fold-a-Books); American
Publishing (sticker sets); Empire-Marx; Tomy; CBS Toys;
Shaper; Casio; Combi; Mel Appel; Quincrafts
(Make it n' Bake it); Colorforms (sticker sets and packaging); Remco;
Galoob (Trash Bag Bunch, Z-Bot characters and other designs); Tyco
Toys (game design and preschool Looney Tunes character toys); Pepperwood
International (Stampos); Nasta; Viewmaster/Ideal Toys; Commonwealth;
Ben Cooper/BBI (Mad Mouth); Dakin; CAP Toys; Applause
(mugs, character designs), Avon Products (packaging for many children's
and character products).
The Anchor Hocking Sesame Street Glasses line, DEKA and Eagle
Affiliates Muppet melamine dinnerware, Enesco (mugs, tea sets,
nutcracker designs), and a variety of products for Thermos. The entire
Muppet line of watches, clocks and POP displays for Timex; pencils
and POP displays for Empire Pencil; Muppet toothbrushes and packaging
for Oral B; packaging for Armitron.
I work with a wide variety of advertising clients, including a weekly
gag cartoon last year for Sega Sports, which ran at the top of the
box score section in USA Today; I have done campaigns for Reynolds
Wrap, Safeway stores, Sears, Discover Card and
many others; the Great Muppet Caper Glasses for McDonalds/Libby Glass
(this was a tremendously successful promotion for Henson's second motion
picture and McDonalds first foray into a premium utilizing non-McDonalds
characters). I designed and illustrated promotional cereal packaging for
General Foods Post Cereals and designed the Muppets Take Manhattan
hats, shirts and melamine glasses promotion for Frito-Lay. I also
have done advertising art for: Fi·Bar, Pepsi, SNET
(Southern New England Telephone), LINX (cellular), Centel Cellular,
Atlantic Richfield Co. (ARCO) and various local clients.
I have done presentations and character designs for Hanna-Barbera
Productions, Sepp International (producers of the Smurfs), and The
Walt Disney Company. I worked with the Henson Associates design team
to create the Emmy award winning Muppet Babies characters. I work with a
wide variety of studios designing new characters and storyboarding, including
Universal Cartoon Studios. I also do animatics, for Grey Advertising/General
Foods/Post Cereals, and Universal Cartoon Studios. I recently did two commercials
for Becker Beer with Playhouse Pictures (including character
design, storyboarding and layout).
Literally thousands of character clothing designs for: Allison;
Andover Togs; Artex; Danskins; Billy the Kid/Calamity
Jane; Union Underwear; Majdahl; Cutler; Wink;
St. Lawrence; Riegal; Wormser; Keds (the entire
Muppet shoe line with POP displays).
"1993 Best Advertising Cartoonist of the Year"
National Cartoonists Society Reuben Awards, Advertising Illustration Division
Award