Luke McGarry

Luke Edward McGarry (born 11 October 1987) is a British illustrator, cartoonist, animator and designer based in Los Angeles.

[4][5] During this period, he regularly collaborated with House of Vans[6] and created poster art for a number of Los Angeles music venues and promoters, including Spaceland, The Echo, Echoplex and The Regent.

[8] In addition to posters, stage design and backdrops, projections and merchandising art, in 2015 he also collaborated with his brother to create a series of five 30-second animated TV commercials, sponsored by Geico, which ran on the IFC network.

Beginning in 2014, McGarry began creating posters and billboards[10] for the annual series of Coachella-adjacent shows staged by the festival's promoter, Goldenvoice.

Inspired by the death of Han Solo in 2015's Star Wars: The Force Awakens, McGarry began creating a series of Sad Chewie cartoons depicting Chewbacca in everyday situations mourning the loss of his friend.

[29] McGarry has been featured at San Diego Comic-Con on a number of occasions, including 2013, when he and Jack Black staged a special signing session on the convention floor.

Among the events they conducted for LICAF 2020 were an animation masterclass[40] and music sessions alongside their invited guests, The Walking Dead artist Charlie Adlard, David Silverman of The Simpsons and Batman illustrator Michael Lark.

[42] Luke McGarry did a live show broadcast from Los Angeles[43] and the brothers also created the festival's Virtual Clocktower website.

[44] In April 2017, McGarry moderated Drawing the Lines, a political cartoons panel discussion with Tom Tomorrow and David Horsey at The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at USC.

[45] In May 2017, Luke, Joe and Steve McGarry, as well as MAD magazine cartoonist Tom Richmond, were invited speakers at the China-U.S. Comics Summit Forum at the Jilin Animation Institute in Changchun,[46] where they were honored as visiting professors.

Commissioned to create the look of the inaugural NCSFest in Huntington Beach, California, in the summer of 2019, his work was featured on posters, banners and the shuttle buses[57] laid on by the city to transport attendees.