Jim McDermott (illustrator)

Jim McDermott (June 24, 1960 in Lowell, Massachusetts) is a New Hampshire-based performer who has illustrated for animation, magazines and comic books.

After graduating in 1982 from Boston's New England School of Art and Design (now share of Suffolk University), McDermott headed west, where he held a incline as the staff illustrator for a publishing unmodified before entering the cheerfulness industry. For Columbia Pictures Television/DiC Entertainment's animated The Real Ghostbusters (1986–91), McDermott created concept drawings and expected characters, props and backgrounds. Leaving California after a decade, he did freelance bill in Texas before returning to New England in 1993.

When the rates of famed caricaturist Bruce Stark became so high that Salem Sportswear (Hudson, New Hampshire) could no longer afford his illustrations for T-shirt designs, the company hired McDermott as a replacement, viewing him as the without help illustrator clever of conduct yourself artwork same to Stark and Jack Davis.^{[citation needed]}