Carolita Johnson

Present: 

• freelance cartoonist for
• freelance illustrator
  
• model (fittings)
  
• writer, illustrator, site design and administration:
  

The New Yorker

newyorkette

Past experience (AKA material for cartoons and writings):

2002-2003: assistant stylist/personal assistant/shoot production for editor Nicoletta Santoro (Italian Vogue)

2000-2002: software development assistant, tester, installer, international tech support and trainer (for cDs, Paris, France).

1998-2002: studio manager/personal assistant/shoot producer for photographer Max Vadukul, for Italian Vogue, Express, and The New Yorker shoots.

1991-1996: Masters in Literature & Linguistics, pre-doc in HistoricalAnthropology of Medieval Europe. 
Memoire subject: A Comparitive Literature Study of The Rape of Lucretia and the Philomela myth as figures in political discourse from Antiquity through Elizabethan times.
Also, French/English translator (Vrai Communications, Paris, France)

1987-1996: fashion model (fashion magazines, shows, commercials) and artisan mosaic design and production (Mosaïque, Clichy, France).

Recent work:

• Two cartoons commissioned by McCann Erickson through the Cartoonbank for Adovart (pharmaceutical product)

• Invitations, full-page advertisement in Paper Magazine, posters, t-shirts for The Bubble Lounge's NYC and SF anniversary.