In their interviews they talk about their formative years, their techniques, their feelings about success and what it takes to achieve it. The Publisher/Creative Director of The Illustrators Journal is Lon Levin. Lon spent 23 years in the entertainment business overseeing many multimillion dollar film and TV campaigns. He was part of the Saban Entertainment team that launched the legendary "Power
Rangers" franchise into a billion dollar business. Subsequently, he gained international recognition for his whimsical, imaginative children’s art. He has won many awards over the length of his career as an art director, creative director and illustrator. A native of Los Angeles, Lon completed two Bachelors of Arts; one from UCLA in Painting & Graphics and the other from Art Center College of Design in Illustration in 1977, where he also taught advertising design from 1990-1992. Levin had the good fortune to study with some of the best artists and illustrators in the world, in particular Murray Tinkelman, Richard Diebenkorn, Lorser Feitelson, Alan Cober, Mark English, Berne Fuchs and Herb Ryman. His work is held in private collections in the US and Canada. In 2008, Levin wrote, photographed and illustrated the book "Treehouses" which was published by Globe Pequot Press. In 2009 he illustrated "There's A Boy Under My Bed" written by award-winning author Lisa Willever which got an honorable mention for Best Children's Book at the Hollywood Book Festival in 2009 and was a 2009 Benjamin Franklin Award Finalist. In 2013 Lon launched the Illustrators Journal as a free four page newsletter which turned in a full blown online magazine in 2016, attracting some of the biggest names in the commercial art world to be interviewed like C. Payne, Chuck Pyle, Victor Juhasz, Peter Sis, Murray Tinkelman, Lisa Cober-Gentry and Chor Boogie. In all TIJ has interviewed more than 150 artists over it's existence.