Mark Zingarelli – RIP – The Daily Cartoonist

Magazine illustrator Mark Zingarelli has passed away.

From the obituary:

Mark attended The Ivy School of Professional Art for a short period before going to the University of Pittsburgh majoring in art and film-making. He left before graduation to pursue an animation opportunity in San Diego that didn’t pan out. Mark managed an art supply store while doing freelance work for local publications and built his business. Eventually, Mark moved up the coast to Seattle, WA, to be closer to siblings who had migrated there. He started doing a comic strip restaurant review column called Eatin’ Out with Eddie for the Seattle based magazine The Rocket. Soon his comic work started appearing in Robert Crumb’s comix anthology Weirdo which lead his career as a cartoonist and illustrator to flourish. His career spanned 40 years as a freelance artist. He was especially proud of his New Yorker cover and his own comic Real Life.

Mark Zingarelli had been a freelance illustrator since the late 1970s but his career seems to have taken off in the mid-1980s with his move to Seattle where he began contributing to that city’s alternative press. His Seattle Weekly contributions and his regular comic strip Eating Out with Eddie for The Rocket. The last half of the 1980s into the early 1990s saw Mark contributing to a few independent comic books.

And then Mark’s career as a well-regarded illustrator and cover artist for the magazine world took off. Zingarelli became a go-to guy for any art director wanting a comic book style illustration.

Among the publications and print businesses Zingarelli has worked for include The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, Sports Illustrated, Kiplinger’s, American Greetings, Esquire, Time Magazine, Newsweek, Business Week, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Magazine, FHM Magazine, Chicago Magazine, LA Magazine, Men’s Health, Prevention Magazine, A.A.R.P. Magazine, A.A.R.P. Bulletin, Simon & Schuster, Rolling Stone, DDB Needham (Chicago), Pantheon/Schocken, MS Magazine, American Heritage, Random House, Nickelode0n Magazine, Nick Jr. Magazine, Il Mondo, Deutsch, Budget Travel, Good Housekeeping, Men’s Fitness, SONY, Scholastic, McGraw Hill, Fortune, Penguin Group USA, Vibe & Vixen Vibe, Runner’s World, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Mother Jones, and Alfred A. Knopf.

Further reading:

A 2011 Mark Zingarelli interview at David Wasting Paper

The Pittsburgh City Paper article about Joyce Brabner and Mark Zingarelli’s Second Avenue Caper

Wayne Wise on collaborating with Mark Zingarelli

… Mark called me to talk about the script. He was gentle, but the bottom line was there was no way all of what I had written was going to fit in six pages. I deferred to Mark’s expertise. He has far more experience laying out a story than I do. The final version that appears in the comic is due to Mark’s editing of my script and playing with the layout of the pages as much as it is to my original draft. The story is stronger for this.

A sampling of Mark Zingarelli art from the Pittsburgh Society of Illustrators

Creating HEY, LET’S EAT! – A New Eddie Longo Compendium (Part 1) by Mark Zingarelli

Mark Zingarelli’s The House of Zing via The Wayback Machine