Goni Montes recently completed these two illustrations, the first one for the Ladies Home Journal and the second for The Workstyle Magazine in Europe.

Now that the Breakthrough Contest is over, we, the staff over at the Richard Solomon's office, got a chance to sit down and look over all of the submissions from this year's contest. We picked out those people that in our opinion also deserved a little spotlight even though they didn't win. These artists are also among the highest scoring of the competition. They were chosen by Ana Gomez (graphic designer), Kofong Hsia (assistant), and Anastasiya Tarasenko (assistant) collectively.

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Last week we announced the winner of the Breakthrough Contest as Michal Dziekan. Once again, we congratulate him and look forward to meeting him in October. We would also like to acknowledge the 4 runners-up of the competition; their great portfolios got them very close to the top spot!...To see the rest of this article, go here.

C.F. Payne was commissioned by The American Prospect last month to create this illustration for their special issue "Did Our Founding Fathers Screw Up?". This issue, which debates whether presidential democracy is still relevant, is now out on stands.