Mark Summers is a Canadian illustrator who works in the time-honored, but infrequently used, medium of scratchboard, he has been a full-time freelance illustrator since graduating from the Ontario College of Art in 1978. He has devoted the past 35 years of his career to the technique of scratchboard, a onetime popular medium which had become all but obsolete by the mid 70’s. Author and illustration historian Steven Heller credits Summers giving the medium a second life.
Mark’s career started off primarily in the newspaper industry, with clients like the New York Times, the Chicago Times, the Wall Street Journal and many others, but quickly moved into all forms of publication. He has worked for every major magazine, and has contributed work for Rolling Stone, Newsweek, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Sports Illustrated and numerous covers for Time.
He has also written and illustrate short articles for Vanity Fair. Mark has contributed covers for most of the major publishers in the world and has collaborated with James Michener and Issac Asimov amongst others. He has also done lavishly illustrated volumes of Poe, Dickens, “Moby Dick”, “Gulliver’s Travels” as well as writing and illustrating two book of his own. Mr. Summers has also designed and published 16 stamps for the United States Postal Service, as well as The Royal Mail and Canada Post. His work is best remembered for his decade long collaboration with Barnes and Noble, where he created the visual persona of their stores, doing portraits of famous authors that decorated their walls.
For his work Mark has received 6 medals from the Society of Illustators in New York and was given The Hamilton King Awards for best illustration in 2000. At last count he had received just over 350 awards at home and globally. Mark’s list of clients is large and far reaching. He has done work for Ford Motor Company, Pacific Bell, Seagrams and for clients as far away as Dubai and China.
Mark’s career started off primarily in the newspaper industry, with clients like the New York Times, the Chicago Times, the Wall Street Journal and many others, but quickly moved into all forms of publication. He has worked for every major magazine, and has contributed work for Rolling Stone, Newsweek, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Sports Illustrated and numerous covers for Time.
He has also written and illustrate short articles for Vanity Fair. Mark has contributed covers for most of the major publishers in the world and has collaborated with James Michener and Issac Asimov amongst others. He has also done lavishly illustrated volumes of Poe, Dickens, “Moby Dick”, “Gulliver’s Travels” as well as writing and illustrating two book of his own. Mr. Summers has also designed and published 16 stamps for the United States Postal Service, as well as The Royal Mail and Canada Post. His work is best remembered for his decade long collaboration with Barnes and Noble, where he created the visual persona of their stores, doing portraits of famous authors that decorated their walls.
For his work Mark has received 6 medals from the Society of Illustators in New York and was given The Hamilton King Awards for best illustration in 2000. At last count he had received just over 350 awards at home and globally. Mark’s list of clients is large and far reaching. He has done work for Ford Motor Company, Pacific Bell, Seagrams and for clients as far away as Dubai and China.
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| Yoko Ono for The Last Word / RollingStone © 2017 Mark Summers. All rights reserved |
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| Steven Tyler for The Last Word / RollingStone © 2017 Mark Summers. All rights reserved |
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| Lenny Kravitz for The Last Word / RollingStone © 2017 Mark Summers. All rights reserved |
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| Florence Welch for The Last Word / RollingStone © 2017 Mark Summers. All rights reserved |
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| James Taylor for The Last Word / RollingStone © 2017 Mark Summers. All rights reserved |
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| Phil Lesh for The Last Word / RollingStone © 2017 Mark Summers. All rights reserved |
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| Kid Rock for The Last Word / RollingStone © 2017 Mark Summers. All rights reserved |
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| Jim James for The Last Word / RollingStone © 2017 Mark Summers. All rights reserved |
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| Lucinda Williams for The Last Word / RollingStone © 2017 Mark Summers. All rights reserved |
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| Rachel Maddow for The Last Word / RollingStone © 2017 Mark Summers. All rights reserved |
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| Donald Fagen for The Last Word / RollingStone © 2017 Mark Summers. All rights reserved |
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| Stevie Nicks for The Last Word / RollingStone © 2017 Mark Summers. All rights reserved |
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| Stephen King for The Last Word / RollingStone © 2017 Mark Summers. All rights reserved |
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| Will Rogers © 2017 Mark Summers. All rights reserved |
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| Wilbur and Orville Wright, Wright brothers © 2017 Mark Summers. All rights reserved |
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| The General Charles de Gaules © 2017 Mark Summers. All rights reserved |
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| Leonardo da Vinci © 2017 Mark Summers. All rights reserved |
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| Billy Gibbons © 2017 Mark Summers. All rights reserved |
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| David Crosby © 2017 Mark Summers. All rights reserved |
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| Bob Weir © 2017 Mark Summers. All rights reserved |
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| Eric Church © 2017 Mark Summers. All rights reserved |
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| Jeff Bridges © 2017 Mark Summers. All rights reserved |
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| Noel Gallagher © 2017 Mark Summers. All rights reserved |
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| Bonnie Raitt © 2017 Mark Summers. All rights reserved |
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| Michael Moore © 2017 Mark Summers. All rights reserved |
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| Lyndon B Johnson © 2017 Mark Summers. All rights reserved |
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| Dr. Seuss © 2017 Mark Summers. All rights reserved |
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| James Joyce © 2017 Mark Summers. All rights reserved |
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| Robert Frost © 2017 Mark Summers. All rights reserved |
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| John Widtsoe © 2017 Mark Summers. All rights reserved |
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| Orson Pratt © 2017 Mark Summers. All rights reserved |
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| Edgar Allan Poe © 2017 Mark Summers. All rights reserved |
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| Joseph Conrad © 2017 Mark Summers. All rights reserved |
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| Virginia Woolf © 2017 Mark Summers. All rights reserved |
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| William Butler Yeats © 2017 Mark Summers. All rights reserved |
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| Kurt Vonnegut, Jr © 2017 Mark Summers. All rights reserved |
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| James Michener © 2017 Mark Summers. All rights reserved |
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| Humpty Dumpty © 2017 Mark Summers. All rights reserved |
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| The 3 greats © 2017 Mark Summers. All rights reserved |
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| Universal Studio © 2017 Mark Summers. All rights reserved |
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| Oprah Winfrey © 2017 Mark Summers. All rights reserved |
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| Neil Patrick Harris © 2017 Mark Summers. All rights reserved |
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| Lady Gaga © 2017 Mark Summers. All rights reserved |
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| Jeff Bridges in Tron © 2017 Mark Summers. All rights reserved |
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| HUMPHREY BOGAR © 2017 Mark Summers. All rights reserved |
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| Edward James Olmos © 2017 Mark Summers. All rights reserved |
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| Flight of the Concords © 2017 Mark Summers. All rights reserved |
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| Sir Elton John © 2017 Mark Summers. All rights reserved |
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| Clark Gable © 2017 Mark Summers. All rights reserved |
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| Avatar in 3D © 2017 Mark Summers. All rights reserved |
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© 2017 Mark Summers. All rights reserved |
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