Lane Smith

Halloween A B C

28 October, 2025 No Comments

Halloween ABC (Eve Merriam, illustrations by Lane Smith) is a darkly playful alphabet book of twenty-six short poems, each keyed to a Halloween word. Published in 1987, the volume pairs Merriam’s rhythmic, often macabre verses with Smith’s moody, painterly images; the illustrations (oil on board) use shadow and a restricted […]

Artists

Lane Smith

24 September, 2025 No Comments

Lane Smith (1959) — American Illustrator and Author Lane Smith was born in 1959 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and later moved to California, where he studied at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena while working as a janitor at Disneyland. After graduation, he moved to New York and began […]