"Not having much luck." His wife, Jeri Hansen, said "Oh you should meet this guy who just did some art for the magazine." The guy was Lane Smith, who'd gotten work at Sport from his then ...

Lane Smith burst onto the picture book scene nearly ... here in the U.S.” I always just thought I’d be kind of a cult artist. There’d be six people looking at my stuff.

Upside-down fairy tales, a neon periodic table, the art of Ramona Quimby and more ... tried to suppress their best performance, but Lane Smith has that distinction.

Lane Smith, the actor who portrayed President Nixon ... Better roles followed, and he went on to play characters as diverse as artist Modigliani, writer Jack Kerouac and dictator Adolf Hitler.

"He was haunted by his dreams," says author and illustrator Lane Smith. In one dream, Lincoln found himself aboard an indescribable vessel moving toward an indistinct shore, Smith tells NPR's ...