Todd, Chuck

Personal

Married; children: two daughters. Education: Southwest Missouri State University, B.F.A., 1989; Academy of Art College, M.F.A., 1999.

Addresses

Home—CA. E-mail—chuck@chucktodd.net.

Career

Sequential artist, illustrator, and educator. Southwest Missouri State University Publications, Springfield, MO, designer, 1989; News-Leader, Springfield, graphic artist and illustrator, 1989-96; Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA, instructor, 1999-2003; Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, CA, news artist, 1999-2003, graphics chief, 2003-05, presentation editor, 2005—. Exhibitions: Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO, 1989; "Private Apparitions," Springfield, 1990; The Annual Show, San Francisco Society of Illustrators, San Francisco, CA, 1997; and Spring Show, Academy of Art College, San Francisco, 1997, 1998, 1999.

Awards, Honors

First place for informational graphic, Missouri Press Association, 1993; third place and two honorable mentions for informational graphics, Kansas and Missouri Associated Press Graphics Contest, 1994; first place for informational graphics, Kansas and Missouri Associated Press Graphics Contest, 1996; awards from East Bay Press Club, 1999, 2001; awards from California Newspaper Publishers Association, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004; awards from Society of Newspaper Design, 2002, 2006.

Illustrator

Gary Bogue, The Raccoon Next Door: Getting Along with Urban Wildlife, Heyday Books (Berkeley, CA), 2003.

Gary Bogue, There's an Opossum in My Backyard, Heyday Books (Berkeley, CA), 2007.

Also creator of The Heart of Stone, a graphic novel based on "A Fratricide" by Franz Kafka.

Biographical and Critical Sources

PERIODICALS

Booklist, August, 2007, Ilene Cooper, review of There's an Opossum in My Backyard, p. 86.

School Library Journal, February, 2008, Susan E. Murray, review of There's an Opossum in My Backyard, p. 83.

ONLINE

Chuck Todd Home Page,http://www.chucktodd.net (November 1, 2008).