Magazine & Glossy Art

Interview Magazine comics by Wartella
Interview logo SUCE$$ STORIES Throughout 2003, artist M. Wartella created a series of full-page color comic strips for Interview magazine. For each installment a celebrity was interviewed about their big break, then the story was transformed into a classic cartoon.

EAT cover
GLOSSY COVER for CityPaper's dining magazine insert.


Artwork © M. Wartella

SCRATCH 'N' BURN A few years ago, Vice Magazine spent a whole lot of money on this scratch-off gimmick cover art for an issue devoted entirely to their mail room guy.

Scratching off the mirror shades proved to be so addictive, virtually no one, including the artist, has an unscratched copy!
Got one?



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Harper's Bazaar

DOLCE & GABBANA:
FASHION SUPERHEROES

In 2005, the pop art sensibilities of M. Wartella were tapped by Harper's Bazaar for this truly bizarre multi-page photo spread featuring super-model Naomi Campbell and uber-design duo, Dolce & Gabbana.

Wartella created word balloons, visual sound effects, and other weird cartoon props for the layout.

EDITION: March 2005



Comic art by M. Wartella

Keith Richards / Billy Idol in SPIN
SPIN
REBEL YELL "One day Kory Kennedy from Spin called me up with an offer I couldn't refuse. See, I'd been pitching him (since his Rolling Stone days) to do a comic strip about Keith Richards. Finally, one day he called and said he had something, not Keith, but as close as we were gonna get. When the cartoon was published, it even got a mention in Page Six, alongside a different blurb about Crumb. You know its a slow day when cartoonists start turning up in the gossip pages."

 
Vintage-style postcard, art by M.Wartella

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