Over the past few years, the Evanston artist has been drawing his cultural influences. He turned his doodles into Artists Authors Thinkers Directors, a book of 100 stylistically diverse portraits (Fantagraphics, $20), due out this month. Here’s what he says about three of them.
![David Byrne illustration by Paul Hornschemeier](/wp-content/archive/images/2013/1213/C201312-C-Paul-Hornschemeier-David-Byrne-illustration.jpg)
David Byrne, musician
“He’s difficult to draw: The better-looking and more symmetrical you are, the harder you are for me to draw.”
Photography: Charlie Deets
![Richard Scarry illustration by Paul Hornschemeier](/wp-content/archive/images/2013/1213/C201312-C-Paul-Hornschemeier-Richard-Scarry-illustration.jpg)
Richard Scarry, cartoonist
“I feel like he manages to do such an amazing job of creating the Richard Scarry World. You have to wonder what he looked like.”
![Billy Wilder illustration by Paul Hornschemeier](/wp-content/archive/images/2013/1213/C201312-C-Paul-Hornschemeier-Billy-Wilder-illustration.jpg)
Billy Wilder, screenwriter
“He always felt like this dad-like figure. I juxtaposed him with a depressing color palette [because] it felt more like him and the totality of his work.”