Charles Apple

Here’s wishing a happy VizEds birthday to John Earle, who has worked in The Virginian-Pilot’s graphics department for 18 years. John turns 52 today (Saturday).

John grew up in Danville, just a couple hours’ west of here. He studied at Parsons School of Design in New York and worked at The Danville Register & Bee and The Roanoke Times before joining The Pilot in 1989.

He’s won a number of SND awards over the years, including four in the four years I’ve been supervising him.

Of all the pieces he’s done for me, this is my favorite:

I asked him to draw me a simple science piece that could nestle among all the wonderful portrait photos we planned to run. Instead, John touched bases with photographer Genevieve Ross, found a nice side-view that had been edited out and used it as the basis for a wonderful graphite portrait that not only covered the technical part of the story but also matched its tone.

A masterful job. Yes, it won an SND award. I’ve been using it as the cover of some of my handouts.

Here are a few more samples of John’s work:

See a little more of John’s work in the Pilot graphics department’s group portfolio.

John shares a birthday with entertainers Robert Redford, Patrick Swayze, Christian Slater, Martin Mull and with director Roman Polanski.

In addition, today is National Bad Poetry Day. Seriously.

Best wishes for a happy birthday, John!

Now: Stop goofing off on company time and get your ass back to work!

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