L. K. Hanson is a graphic artist and writer from Minneapolis, where he worked for the Star Tribune, Minnesota’s largest daily. He is a graduate of St. Olaf College, where he was artist-in-residence. He has taught illustration and lettering at the College of Visual Arts in St. Paul, and has illustrated books for Workman Publishing and the Hazelden Foundation. Hanson is now in semiretirement, and his work appears weekly on the Star Tribune’s opinion page.