Jason Williams’ drawings for this year’s Best of Northern Nevada issue portray a changing Reno while highlighting the many ways in which locals seek out fun—ubiquitous blue scooters and all. Williams has contracted with clients like Microsoft, Patagonia and the U.S. Air Force, and now works full-time designing and illustrating online games for Crazy Tooth Studio. He also draws caricatures. If you want a funny, quickly drawn cartoon version of you and yours, you can occasionally find him set up at the Riverside Farmers Market on a Sunday, or at other local events. To learn more, visit www.jasonillustrations.com and @artof_jasonwilliams on Instagram.
My favorite artist always has been, since I was a kid, Norman Rockwell. I grew up near Boston. He was in Massachusetts. And cartoons—Hanna-Barbera and Looney Tunes are my favorites. I always wanted to be a comic strip artist in the newspaper, and then that kind of evolved into comic books, which I’ve done—and realized that’s a horrible industry to be part of.
Why?…