Jim McDermott (illustrator)

Jim McDermott (June 24, 1960 in Lowell, Massachusetts) is a New Hampshire-based artist who has illustrated for animation, magazines and comic books.

After graduating in 1982 from Boston's New England School of Art and Design (now part of Suffolk University), McDermott headed west, where he held a position as the staff illustrator for a publishing firm before entering the animation industry. For Columbia Pictures Television/DiC Entertainment's animated The Real Ghostbusters (1986–91), McDermott created concept drawings and designed characters, props and backgrounds. Leaving California after a decade, he did freelance work in Texas before returning to New England in 1993.

When the rates of famed caricaturist Bruce Stark became so high that Salem Sportswear (Hudson, New Hampshire) could no longer afford his illustrations for T-shirt designs, the company hired McDermott as a replacement, viewing him as the only illustrator capable of doing artwork similar to Stark and Jack Davis.

For Gregg Press McDermott created a Western saloon poster to promote the books of Louis L'Amour and Max Brand, followed by a science fiction montage to sell Frank Herbert and Robert A. Heinlein.

His work for comic books has appeared in GrimJack, Omega Men and Heavy Metal. Video Games & Computer Entertainment and TurboPlay featured his cover paintings and interior illustrations of video game characters.

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