What Happens Here Doesn’t Stay Here Anymore…

February 24, 2010 by Jerry Miller

Perhaps you have heard the ad campaign for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, “What Happens in Vegas Stays in Vegas?” It is widely considered to be one of the most successful branding efforts in advertising history. Vegas Seven Magazine Magazine asked me to illustrate their interesting article that poses the question, ”What Happens […]

Categories: Published Illustrations • Tags: Gossip, Las Vegas, satire, What Happens Here Stays Here, What Happens in Vegas Stays in Vegas

Money Starved Republicans

February 2, 2010 by Jerry Miller

Here is a political spot I was assigned to illustrate for The Capitol Magazine. Illustrate a couple of politicians as panhandlers? How can I resist? (If you are inclined to read the article that my illustration accompanied just click here.)

Categories: Published Illustrations • Tags: Panhandling, political, politics, Republicans, satire, Senators

Bring it, 2010!

December 31, 2009 by Jerry Miller

The Las Vegas Weekly advises “Let’s forget the epic suckage of 2009; here are 36 reasons you should give next year a chance…” This is the first time I have gotten a chance to paint Barry Manilow—hIave to say, he and that nose made the job fun. Having a cover illustration is a very nice […]

Categories: Published Illustrations • Tags: Barry Manilow, caricature, celebrity, Governor Jim Gibbons, Hoover dam bypass bridge, Las Vegas, political, satire

Gubernatorial Scene at a Glance

October 7, 2009 by Jerry Miller

This was a double page spread for The Las Vegas Weekly’s “Who Wants to be our Governor?” article in the October 1-7, 2009 issue. I had fun with this parody as I was asked to draw seven different faces, including Jim Gibbons and Oscar Goodman.

Categories: Published Illustrations • Tags: caricature, elections, Las Vegas, Parody, political, satire

Celebrity Misbehavior

August 13, 2009 by Jerry Miller

This Illustration for the Las Vegas Weekly comes in response to the city’s desire to build and promote a museum in honor of the mob’s history in Las Vegas. The theory being: if a Mob Museum is acceptable, then why not a museum of Celebrity Misbehavior? A result of this line of thinking concludes with […]

Categories: Published Illustrations • Tags: celebrity, Mob Museum, OJ Simpson, Parody, satire

Obama and Reid’s Snub

May 28, 2009 by Jerry Miller

Apparently, President Obama declined a meeting with the Governor of Nevada (Jim Gibbons) during his trip to Las Vegas on May 26th. In response, the Las Vegas Weekly contacted me to illustrate this “snub” by contrasting his cozy relationship with Senator Harry Reid to his indifference to the seemingly powerless Governor.

Categories: Published Illustrations • Tags: bicycle, Harry Reid, Jim Gibbons, Las Vegas, Obama, Parody, political, politics, portrait, satire

Recession Survival Guide

April 23, 2009 by Jerry Miller

Here are some illustrations of an Anthropomorphised Abraham Lincoln Penny, engaging in some gallows humor for the Las Vegas Weekly. These spots are for a cover story titled, “Recession Survival Guide—Our penny-pinching, fast money, feel better roundup of ways to beat this thing.” For my money, it is hard to beat an illustration of Abraham […]

Categories: Published Illustrations • Tags: caricature, Drunk, Economy, Money, political, recession, satire, sketchbook

Nevada’s Proposed Sex Tax

April 9, 2009 by Jerry Miller

I painted this illustration for the Las Vegas Weekly for an article titled “(Getting Dirty) Ask Not What Your State Can Do For You… Las Vegas Weekly proposes extending the $5 sex-act tax.” It is an extraordinary story about a proposed bill that would tax prostitution at $5 per “session” in Nevada. This illustration was complicated by […]

Categories: Published Illustrations • Tags: Las Vegas, Naked, Nudity, Prostitution, satire, Sex, Tax, Taxes, Uncle Sam

Undercutting Christine Quinn

March 20, 2009 by Jerry Miller

“New York Council speaker Christine Quinn is up for re-election with very little competition aside from two female candidates. Quinn is sitting in a large chair and the the two women … trying to cut the chair down but not having much success.”

Categories: Published Illustrations • Tags: elections, female, political, politics, satire