New York artist Ward Sutton creates cartoons, illustrations, poster designs, and animation. While his 6th grade teacher looked the other way, Ward began honing his comic art skills and has been expanding the scope of his work ever since. His self-syndicated, weekly comic strip, Schlock'n'Roll, debuted in 1995 and has been running in the Village Voice since 1998. In 2000 he developed a new bi-weekly cartoon called That's Entertoonment! which runs in TV Guide. He has been creating "Op-Art" cartoons for the New York Times Op-Ed page on a semi-regular basis since the spring of 1999. His previous self-syndicated, weekly comic strip was Ward's Cleaver, which ran from 1990 - 1997. His cartoons have also appeared in Rolling Stone, Time and Entertainment Weekly . Ward has created illustrations for many publications, including The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Talk, Esquire, Time, Sports Illustrated, Entertainment Weekly and Premiere. His art appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone in December of 2000 and on the cover of TV Guide in January of 2001. In Nov. 1998 his portrait of Prince Charles appeared on the cover of the New York Times Magazine. Originally from Minneapolis, Ward lived in Seattle from 1991-1995. There he began designing and illustrating low-budget concert posters for local bands that were stapled all over town on telephone poles. After moving to New York in 1995, he began creating brightly colored, limited-edition silk-screened posters for bands such as Beck, Blues Traveler, Mudhoney, Pearl Jam and Phish and through the San Francisco company ArtRock.

These posters caught the eye of art directors, and in late 1997, Ward was hired to create the art for the Tony-nominated hit Broadway show "Freak," starring John Leguizamo. Ward had his first New York poster art exhibition in February of 1998 and then took the show on the road, touring to Minneapolis, Seattle, Boulder, and finally to Austin, TX at the request of the local AIGA in 1999. Later in 1999, Ward designed the poster for the hit Broadway show "Jackie Mason - Much Ado About Everything." He then created artwork for the poster, programs, promo pieces etc. for the 2000 Sundance Film Festival. Other projects have included designing the stage backdrops and site banners for the 1997 HORDE festival which featured Neil Young and Beck.

Ward is now branching out into the field of animation. In the fall of 2001 he designed and directed an animated short for HBO which will debut sometime in 2002. Other projects include the animated opening sequence to the show "Strangers With Candy" on Comedy Central, many projects for the Nickelodeon channel TV Land, a Nabisco advertisement featuring Ken Griffey Jr., and the sponsor trailers for the 2000 Sundance Film Festival. His interest in animation led him to organize the Society of Publication Designers 2nd Annual Animation Festival in New York City in April, 2000.

Ward is working to create for television and film. He also paints, and shoots and edits footage from his digital video camera. He lives in Manhattan with his wife Sue.

Interview with Ward about his acting on the Comedy Central Series "Strangers With Candy"

Sue Unkenholz, Scorpio, has been working in some aspect of production and management since arriving in New York City in 1995. Most recently she was the Executive Director of The New York Pops at Carnegie Hall, with Founder and Music Director Skitch Henderson, until the fall of 2000 when she took a job offered by her husband, Ward Sutton, to become the Business Partner of Sutton Impact Studio Inc.

Prior to The New York Pops Unkenholz honed her production skills while working on The New York Philharmonic's 1996 free outdoor summer concerts and Garrison Keillor's weekly radio show A Prairie Home Companion. She learned a thing or two about publicity and marketing while working on the press efforts for Patti LuPone on Broadway and Elizabeth Taylor's 7-city tour promoting the perfume Black Diamonds.

But she left it all for the glamour, the big lights and the late nights of working with Ward.