![]() ![]() Zero Heroes was a joint venture between General Mills and Donruss. In 1983 He did another set of collector sticker cards called Zero Heroes, featuring tragically flawed superheroes with names like "The Fantastic Fast Guy," "Lard Lady," and "Milk Man." Each card had a short bio of its character on the back, featuring the character's origin and final outcome. In 1989, for Leaf/Donruss, Taylor created Baseball's Greatest Gross Outs, featuring more cartoon parodies of baseball players with names like "Long-arm Lenny" and "Garlic-breath Gary." The set featured 88 stickers as well as a repeat of some of those stickers with a 36-cardback poster. In 1988, Taylor created more collectable stickers for Leaf/Donruss, "Awesome All*Stars," a spoof of baseball cards featuring humorously grotesque monsters. The series was very popular with schoolchildren of the time, resulting in a string of sequel series. In 1969, Taylor created 44 stickers for the Donruss Company's group of non-sports trading card/sticker series, Odd Rods. He illustrated a piece in Mad issue #357 (1997), titled "The Mad World of Religion," written by Rick Rodgers. ![]() Sick and Mad magazinesĪt least as early as 1966, Taylor was doing cover illustrations for Sick, while still studying at the Art School of the Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts. ![]() Since then, he has been using his creative ideas to create book, magazine, and trading card illustrations, muppet designs for Jim Henson and others, and has worked on writing teams for television and feature releases including Home Improvement with Tim Allen, and Disney's Mulan. Taylor began his varied career while still in art school in Detroit, illustrating covers for Sick magazine. Taylor studied art at Detroit's premier art school, the Art School of the Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts (later known as Center for Creative Studies, now College for Creative Studies), under advertising department Chair and instructor Harry Borgman. ![]()
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