The Milford Fine Arts Council presents

"Submarines on Parade"
July - October 2000

The Art

I had recently read an article about the artist Norman Wilkinson and his avante-garde camouflage designs use on warships in World War II. The designs seem counterintuitive - bold zigzags and black and white patterns that transform the warships into objects resembling large works of modern art (why this worked as camouflage is too technical to go into here). But this article got me thinking about camouflage and led me to think about the submarine project. What type of camouflage would a submarine have if a submarine needed to be camouflaged? My answer is on my submarine.
- Jim Meddick

The Artist

Jim majored in Illustration and Graphic Design at Washington University in St. Louis, MO and was an editorial cartoonist with Newspaper Enterprise Association in New York after graduation. While in college he won the Chicago Tribune Student Cartoonist Contest for his strip "Paperback Writer." In 1985 Jim's quirky comic strip "Robotman" landed on comics pages throughout the world. "Robotman" spoofs suburbia, trashes tacky TV shows and offers absurdist commentary on "everything from'The X-Files' to the latest conspiracy theory."