Rick Johnson

Graffix Illustration

Graffix Software

Five grandkids already!

(Illustration by my good friend and mentor, Don Pfuehler)

Yes, I was in the art business when illustrations were done on the drawing board with Rapidograph pens and airbrushed inks, and "paste-ups" were done with rubber cement. The field has sure changed!

I'm an illustrator at Kalmbach Publishing Company, and my work appears in magazines such as Trains, Model Railroader, American Snowmobiler, Astronomy and others books and magazines. I grew up on the Soo Line Railroad, where my dad retired as a depot agent, which kindled my interest in trains, especially the Soo Line.