Joe Alterio
is a San Francisco based illustrator, designer, animator, and comics artist with a very satisfied local and national client base. Joe has orchestrated poster campaigns, designed software packages, created award winning cartoons, and penned insightful comics. Joe has a long list of art directors that will attest to his illustrative eye, timeliness, and inexpensive rates that will help any individual or company realize their full graphic potential.
Joe’s influences include old pulp novel art, Will Eisner, Sailor Jerry tattoo flash, Herge, hand-made birthday cards, 19th century Japanese woodblock cuts, Czech animation, old mystery radio broacasts, classic Silly Symphonies, taxidermy, the lithographic printing process, Los Bros. Hernandez, Louis Armstrong Hot Fives and Sevens, Vargas pinups, 1940’s film noir,Thimble Theater, Bob Wills, Soviet propaganda posters, Robert Frank, and the SX-70 Polaroid camera.
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