Artist finds designing kids' page more fulfilling than corporate work

Published: 2005-10-18

MILWAUKEE (CNS) -- His past clients read like a who's who listing of the country's movers and shakers: NBC News, Apple Computers, Amoco, Harley Davidson, Toys "R" Us and Microsoft, to name just a few. He's designed artwork for Disney, Warner Bros., Perkins Restaurants and DC Comics, and his creations appear on the "Thomas Saves the Day" video in Atari's Thomas the Tank Engine series. But the work that brings artist Mario Macari the most satisfaction is the "Catholic stuff" that has begun appearing in the Catholic Herald, newspaper of the Milwaukee Archdiocese. Macari, 44, a member of St. John the Evangelist Parish in Greenfield, produces a weekly kids' page including puzzles, trivia, cartoons, a saint biography and message for kids from Milwaukee Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan, for the Catholic Herald. While Macari, a freelance illustrator and graphic designer, said the corporate clients pay the bills, "it's the Catholic stuff that is so fulfilling and so rewarding."

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