Siergey creates art the old-fashioned way

Back in the days before so much of our art was computer generated or enhanced, there was the “old school” way of doing animation — drawing by hand. It’s the world that Jim Siergey of Munster started out in and it’s still the way he loves to create art.

Siergey has been drawing for as long as he can remember www.seniorlifenewspapers.com

— probably from the time he could first hold a pencil. Throughout school he was always doodling and drawing, much to his teachers’ dismay. He was often getting in trouble for drawing when the teachers thought he should be doing something else. His passion for art was discouraged more than encouraged. “The same thing I got sent to the principal’s office for — drawing — I get paid to do today,” he said.

It wasn’t until well into adulthood that he even considered he might be able to make a living doing what he loved. “The thought of doing it as a career never occurred to me until I met Jay Lynch, an Underground Comix legend and comics historian when I was in my 20s,” he said.

However, it wasn’t until he was 30 that he began making a career of being an artist. He was a character animator for various studios in Chicago for about 20 years for commercials, educational films, industrial films and other projects.

“I also freelanced in spot illustration for various entities and with my partner, Tom Roberts, collaborated on a comic strip titled ‘Cultural Jet Lag’ — an illogical combination of high and low culture with no regard for time and space — that ran in the Alternative Press for about 20 years, as well as a 4 1/2 year stint with TIME Magazine and another stint with USA Weekend and three comic book compilations from various publishers.”

His professional resume runs the gamut from comics to trad- ing cards to book illustrations to work on a major exhibit at Chicago’s Field Museum, and much more. He also animated “Rembrandt,” a 23-minute video from the Getting To Know The World’s Greatest Artists

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His work has been displayed at many area venues, including breweries, galleries and libraries, much of it his own unique genre, which he refers to as “nart.” Some recent events and ongoing projects have included a summer art pop up at Promise You Art House in Highland, a regular cartoon “The Foul Pole” for Chicago Baseball Magazine (published four times a summer and sold at Wrigley Field) and a monthly “nartoon” for The Lansing Journal.

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You can find his work currently at Sip Coffee House in Highland. He’s also been asked to create a work for Beatlefest in Hammond, happening Aug. 11-12. It doubles as a puzzle and will be raffled off at the festival.

Siergey has won several accolades for his work, most recently in the 29th annual Juried Art Exhibition at the Art Barn in Valparaiso. Check out his artist page on nartscape. threadless.com.