 danny hellman (born august 2, 1964)dannyhellman.com is an american freelance illustrator and cartoonist. since 1989, his illustrations have appeared in publications including time, fortune, sports illustrated, the wall street journal and others, and his comic book work has appeared in dc comics publications. ==early life== danny hellman was raised in the jackson heights neighborhood of queens, new york city, new york. he graduated from the high school of art & design, in manhattan, in 1982, and took figure drawing classes throughout the 1980s at the art students league. after teaming with bill mantlo, a veteran comic book writer, on a presentation for a comic based on the robotron: 2084 arcade video game, and being told by editor-in-chief tom defalco that hellman's artwork was not yet professional quality, hellman briefly attended the school of visual arts."cr sunday interview: danny hellman", the comics reporter, august 24, 2008 he soon dropped out and began working as a bicycle messenger, while drawing and distributing posters for the rock music band floor kiss. ==career== in the summer of 1988 hellman, then a self-described "stoner" who lived in his grandparents' attic in queens, followed illustrator friends in getting freelance work from kevin hein, art director of the weekly new york city pornographic newspaper screw. hellman showed hein a portfolio of his rock posters, and a "tweaked" version of one became hellman's first screw cover. he continued to contribute cover art to the magazine on a regular basis, and provide occasional interior comic-strip work parodying the likes of superman, the simpsons, and the cosby show, until screw ceased publication in 2006. in the early 1990s, hellman went on to illustrate for art director michael gentile at new york press â later continuing with gentile with the art director moved to habitat â and the local periodicals the village voice, and guitar world. hellman eventually drew for national publications including time, fortune, [[s
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