For more than 40 years C.F. Payne has worked as an illustrator and educator where he now serves as Director of the MFA in Illustration program at the Hartford Art School. His art has been shown in numerous national and international art galleries and museums and have appeared in Time Magazine, MAD Magazine, the New York Times Magazine, Sports Illustrated and Reader’s Digest. C.F. Payne has illustrated 20 children’s books, by Sue Macy, Marissa Moss, Jane Yolen, Phil Bildner, actors John Lithgow and Steve Martin, astronaut Mark Kelly and Mark Twain.