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1252 Center Ave Tarpon Springs, FL 34689
Haus of Art c.2003 |
The Artist
My bio in a nutshell; Name- John Younghaus, born in Ft Wayne, IN a member of the baby boomer generation. Graduated from Indiana University a liberal member of the liberal arts school who flew the freak flag high. Graduated and earned a Bachelors degree in Graphic Design by scoring 6 consecutive A's my senior year. Four hours of those A's came from the chairman of the Dept, Thomas Coleman, who's 5 minutes of fame was designing that famous logo of IBM. I spun my wheels up in Indiana until the winter of the great blizzard that I took as a sign to get my butt down to FL asap. Luck was certainly with me that year, when I got offers from 3 of the largest newspapers in the country- The Miami Herald, Ft-Lauderdale Sun Sentinel, Palm Beach Post. I chose the PB Post and proudly wore the title of "Promotion Artist" in a 2 person department. My first month on the new job saw me win a trophy for the company with my illustration and design of a full page ad in a nationwide competition for newspapers according to their circulation size. The funny part was I didn't even know my manager had entered the ad. The rest of my career at the Post was spent honing my cold type graphic design skills. This was way before graphics software so I have been through the "graphic design revolution" and am still evolving in the field. After about 2 years with the paper some editor friends of mine at the paper who admired my abilities (they affectionatly called me the "Art Dept") talked me into going with them in a very speculative venture publishing a news magazine called "The Country Journal" My first job was creating the Corporate identity and then designing the concept and then design layout and page format, spot art, illustrations, cartooning etc- even a little photography. Being very young, profession-wise, I wasn't mature enough to know these ventures can and do disappear at the whim of the stockholders. Our majority stockholder was an eccentric multi-millionaire from Palm Beach. It took him a little over a year to bring the whole thing to an end. What a lesson learned. My next stop was to my retired parents Hobby Shop in Bellair Bluffs, FL. It was around this time I got married and decided that I better act fast and expand this $60,000 a year Hobby Shop to something that could support us all. One day I asked my dad if he would like to take a niche hobby (Wargaming) and see if we could market and sell wargaming products in as professional way as our small budget would allow. In a few short years we got that $60,000 a yr shop cranked up to $500,000 and no end in sight. The best part was I was still living the dream. Eventually though my parents/biz partners got too old for all the work. My mom kept telling me I created a monster. We had a lot of fun with that monster but eventually sold out to the highest bidder so my parents were set in retirement. I am now free-lance illustrator, having fun with it and looking for that next $60,000 a year Hobby Shop.
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This
is 10 page comic book, "Spiderman vs The Hulk" I did when I was 10 or
11. The interesting thing about this is it was reproduced on one of the very
first commercial copiers on the market. My dad copied my original drawings on
it. The copy is now yellow on strange paper but very well preserved. My dad said
it was chemically coated. The machine was top-secret and I was not allowed in to
watch it make copies.