Illustrating professionally for over three decades, specializing in storyboards, comps and animatics. Skilled at conferencing with art directors, writers, creative teams. Quick to grasp concepts and visualize ideas. Cool with tight deadlines, multiple revisions.
Bringing fun to each job, because great work only happens when you're having fun. Also experienced in finished illustration and comics. Interested in doing more storyboard work for the entertainment industry.
Agencies worked for:
FCB, Leo Burnett, DDB, Energy BBDO, Disney, Barkley, JWT, Rubrik, BVK, Pavone, VML, Lapiz, Digital Kitchen, LSB, Partners and Napier, GS Design, DigitasLBi, Brunner, Latinworks, Jacobson/Rost, GS Design, Cramer-Krasselt, Laughlin Constable, McGarryBowen, Bozell, August-Jackson, GlobalHue, Doner, Mobium, Ogilvy & Mather, McCann Erickson, Upshot, and many more.
Brands worked on:
Michelob, DQ, McDonald's, Coors, Bob Evans, Sprint, Kellogg's, Bryant & Stratton, KFC, JG Wentworth, Corona, Jergens, Cox, Fulton Bank, HoMedics, Cheez-it, Purina, FXX, The Boss, USMC, Galbani, Mercury, Eggos, Centrum, Sargento, Rotel, Echo, Blistex, Pringles, Sears, Wells Fargo, First National Bank, Pop Tarts, Bush Beans, Sea Doo, Bud Light, El Monterey, Bissell, Raid, Wii, Loctite, Can Am, Miller, Nintendo, Tru Moo, Disneyland, DisneyWorld, International Delight, Alka Seltzer, Bayer, Bounty, Steak'n'Shake, Volkswagon, Honda, Whirlpool, Marlboro, Kodak, US Cellular, Dial, Keebler, Broadview, Ziploc, Wrigley, Corelle, Allstate, Verizon, Glade, Scrubbing Bubbles, State Farm, Pyrex, Vidal Sassoon, Time Warner, PNC Bank, Johnsonville, Tang, Oscar Mayer, Carnation, Wal-Mart, Nesquick, Coke, Samsung, Kraft, Bubblicious, Zantac, Toys 'R' Us, Windex, Schick, Trident, M&Ms, Soft Scrub, Ritz, Dodge, Capital One, Belvita, Auto Trader, Nabisco, Jeep, Harris Bank, Wheat Thins, Shout, Sara Lee, ESPN, Gerber, Dell, Off!, Lifesavers, Stouffer, VO5, and many more.
BIO
A Chicago native raised in a large Catholic family, Mike was instilled with a strict sense of discipline by some of the most feared nuns in the archdiocese. This old school work ethic prepared him well for the rigors of life as a storyboard artist.
After honing his skills at the American Academy of Art, Mike did a bit of everything - comics, oil portraits, T-shirt design, watercolor house portraits, schoolbook illustration…. until he reckoned he should start making a living. Sequential art encoded in his DNA, he naturally gravitated to storyboards.
His big break came at Ogilvy & Mather when his boss/mentor, the legendary Rudi Klimpert, broke his own thumb and had to give more work to his protégé, who became an agency favorite. In due course, Mike went freelance, repped by his brother Steve’s agency. The rest is history, with countless numbers of happy clients attesting to his professionalism and the high quality of his work.
Mike resides on the NW side of town with his artist/gardener wife Pam, a couple of cats, and a lizard. When he's not working or socializing he's often found sitting at his Baldwin upright plunking out an old Tin Pan Alley tune or crooning a self-penned ditty. No one expects him to ever finish his graphic novel.
