Publishes first book of cartoons
Dennis Stevens, a 1960 graduate of Scranton High School, has just published Out of My Mind, a book of original cartoons created during the pandemic quarantine.
The son of the late Wilmer “Shorty” and Lela Stevens, Stevens earned a bachelor of fine arts from Drake University. He began his work career at Look Magazine in Des Moines in promotions. The remainder of his professional career was in advertising at several ad agencies. Living at Norwalk, CT, since 1986, he spent 25 years working on Madison Avenue in New York City with previous stops at Honolulu and Chicago.
“I’ve been interested in art my entire life,” said Stevens.
Begun at the outset of the coronavirus outbreak, Stevens created and self-published Out of My Mind, a 100-page book of cartoons. “All the news was so depressing,” Stevens said. “I decided to see if I couldn’t do something to lighten it up.”
Well-known locally as a painter of representational and narrative oil paintings, he had never drawn cartoons but decided to give it a try because “it was such a difficult time for everyone and I hoped I could make people smile.”
His cartoon work has been met with tremendous enthusiasm. Readers have commented: “Stevens is as clever, and original a talent as any before him.”
“Witty, thought provoking and laugh-out-loud funny.”
The first printing, Volume One, is available now. Volume Two is at the printer and Volume Three is in the works.
A website is being built but for now Stevens can be contacted at his email address, dennis.stevens@yahoo.com.
Stevens says he has no immediate travel plans due to the pandemic but would like to visit Iowa and his home town when it is safe to travel. His sister and brother-in-law are Larry and Joyce Frazier of Jefferson, formerly of Scranton. ~courtesy of The Scranton Journal
