Verdict Illustrators
Artists and Illustrators
Below are just a few of the artists whose poignant artwork brings to life the content of Verdict’s articles.
Peter K. McDonnell
Pete has been Verdict’s Art Director since 1998. His professional career started at the age of 14 when he sold a cartoon of a little girl shaking her fist at a little boy, saying “If you weren’t a boy, I’d flatten you!,” to Gloria Steinem’s new Ms. Magazine. His clients have included Hewlett-Packard, Nestle’s, CRACKED magazine, National Geographic, KIDS magazine, Capstone Publishing’s Graphic History Library, the J. Walter Thompson ad agency, Colorforms, Lewis Galoob Toys, Sega/Activision and Benefit Cosmetics, to name a few. Since 2016, Pete has been drawing editorial cartoons for his hometown paper, The Petaluma Argus-Courier. In 2010 he began drawing caricatures at private events throughout San Francisco’s Bay Area for corporate clients like Jackson Family Wineries, Medtronic, Twitter, Apple, Google and Facebook and private events like weddings and birthday parties.
With my drawings, sketches and illustrations, I seek to shine a light on the important legal issues that our underserved communities face.
Chuck Todd
Chuck Todd is an award-winning illustrator and visual journalist in the San Francisco Bay Area. Chuck was the 2021 recipient of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Children’s Literature Award for Illustration. Chuck has a BFA in Image Production from Missouri State University and an MFA in Illustration from The Academy of Art University. After more than two decades as a newspaper artist and presentation editor, Chuck has turned his focus to creating illustrations for children’s books, magazines, websites and comics.
Chuck Todd (left) Receives Award Honoring His Illustrations for Verdict
Matthew Snow
Matthew Snow studied at the Chicago Art Institute for three years and then went to Washington University in St. Louis, where he earned a degree in art history. In 1976, he studied in Paris with Elaine de Kooning and Leland Bell; he later studied in Madrid at the Prado. Mr. Snow’s work has been shown in group and solo shows in Manhattan, Provincetown, Boston and Maryland. A children’s book he both wrote and illustrated was recently published in New York City. Matthew is a member of NCCLP’s Board of Directors.
Matthew Snow (left) Receives Award Honoring His Illustrations for Verdict
Joan Chiverton
Joan worked for many years as an art director, and now as an Illustrator with ad agencies, magazines and newspapers. She teaches at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. She serves on the boards of The Society of Illustrators and The Society of American Graphic Artists. Joan also organizes illustrators to sketch veterans at the Harbor VA Hospital. She is represented by the gallery The Old Print Shop.
Joan Chiverton’s Etching Selected by National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution
Mike Keefe
Mike Keefe is a retired editorial cartoonist and is best known for his work at The Denver Post, for which he drew cartoons from 1975 to 2011. A nationally syndicated cartoonist, his work has appeared in hundreds of newspapers across the country, as well as in Europe and Asia, and in most major U.S. news magazines. He was a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University and past president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. In 2011, Mike was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.
