J.D. King

J. D. King is an American artist best known for his commercial art illustrations for companies including Absolut Vodka, Atlantic Records, Condé Nast Publications, Sony, and others.

J. D. King began his career in the late 1970s with contributions to underground press magazines such as Stop!, Weirdo, and Comical Funnies.

King's illustrations have appeared in The Boston Globe, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. In addition to book illustration (Martin McIntosh's Beatsville), he has contributed to numerous magazines, including Adweek, Rethinking Schools, Bicycling, BusinessWeek, Entertainment Weekly, Fortune, Kiplinger's, MacWorld, New York, The New Yorker, Newsweek, The Progressive and Time. Beastniks, a comic strip inspired by beatniks, ran in Drawn & Quarterly and Twist during the late 1980s and early 1990s.