Michael Cho works across editorial illustration, comics, and book covers, with projects for DC, Marvel, White Noise, Action Comics, and Detective Comics. His practice is built on early decisions about reduction, framing, and tone; the structure exists long before the image feels finished. We talked about empty space, off-frame thinking, color as structure, and the invisible choices that let the viewer do part of the work.

Sam Viviano spent 19 years as the visual steward of MAD Magazine. He decided how a joke would read long before anyone saw a finished page — the choices that shaped what the reader noticed first, what could disappear, and where the composition carried or broke the gag.

James McElwaine built a career across composition, orchestration, recording, and teaching, moving through New York’s music scene for more than forty years. He’s collaborated with artists as different as Randy Newman, Marvin Gaye, and Jim Henson.