Ross MacDonald's llustrations have appeared in many magazines including The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Newsweek, Time, The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, The Wall Street Journal, The London Sunday Telegraph, Atlantic Monthly and Harpers.

He has written and illustrated humor pieces for Newsweek, Time, Mother Jones, The Times Op Ed page, and others.

He has worked on children's books, ads, book covers, a postage stamp, animated shorts for Sesame Street, on-air graphics, animation for a Saturday Night Live commercial parody, backgrounds for the Broadway and London stage productions of Tommy, and set design, illustrations and titles for the John Hughes movie Baby's Day Out.

His work has been honored in many competitions of design and illustration, including American Illustration, Print Regional Design Annual, Communication Arts, The Society of Publication Designers, the AIGA, and The Society of Illustrators.

His first children's picture book, 'Another Perfect Day' (Roaring Brook Press, fall 2002) was a Publisher's Weekly Best Book of the year. His second, 'Achoo Bang Crash-the Noisy Alphabet' is due out in fall 2003 and a third, 'Big Baby' is in the works.

He lives in Connecticut with his wife, two children, four cats and a large collection of 19th century type and printing equipment.