Todd, Chuck
Todd, Chuck
Personal
Married; children: two daughters. Education: Southwest Missouri State University, B.F.A., 1989; Academy of Art College, M.F.A., 1999.
Addresses
Home—CA. E-mail—[email protected].
Career
Sequential artist, illustrator, and educator. Southwest Missouri State University Publications, Springfield, MO, designer, 1989; News-Leader, Springfield, graphic artist and illustrator, 1989-96; Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA, instructor, 1999-2003; Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, CA, news artist, 1999-2003, graphics chief, 2003-05, presentation editor, 2005—. Exhibitions: Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO, 1989; "Private Apparitions," Springfield, 1990; The Annual Show, San Francisco Society of Illustrators, San Francisco, CA, 1997; and Spring Show, Academy of Art College, San Francisco, 1997, 1998, 1999.
Awards, Honors
First place for informational graphic, Missouri Press Association, 1993; third place and two honorable mentions for informational graphics, Kansas and Missouri Associated Press Graphics Contest, 1994; first place for informational graphics, Kansas and Missouri Associated Press Graphics Contest, 1996; awards from East Bay Press Club, 1999, 2001; awards from California Newspaper Publishers Association, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004; awards from Society of Newspaper Design, 2002, 2006.
Illustrator
Gary Bogue, The Raccoon Next Door: Getting Along with Urban Wildlife, Heyday Books (Berkeley, CA), 2003.
Gary Bogue, There's an Opossum in My Backyard, Heyday Books (Berkeley, CA), 2007.
Also creator of The Heart of Stone, a graphic novel based on "A Fratricide" by Franz Kafka.
Biographical and Critical Sources
PERIODICALS
Booklist, August, 2007, Ilene Cooper, review of There's an Opossum in My Backyard, p. 86.
School Library Journal, February, 2008, Susan E. Murray, review of There's an Opossum in My Backyard, p. 83.
ONLINE
Chuck Todd Home Page,http://www.chucktodd.net (November 1, 2008).