Pablo Ferro

Pablo Ferro (Illustrator) moved with his family from Cuba to New York City when he was twelve years old. As a teenager in the 1950’s, he worked with Stan Lee creating comic books, and with Abe Liss, animating the NBC Peacock for the first time. In the 1960’s he started Ferro, Mugubgub & Schwartz and created a string of award winning commercials. He continued that tradition of excellence with a second company, Pablo Ferro Films, and a third, Mango Films, producing such groundbreaking commercials as Burlington Mills – drawing that iconic logo line by line – Calgon, and dozens more. His pioneering film work – most notably his inventions of the quick cut and multiple screen images – caught the eye of Stanley Kubrick, who hired him to create movie trailers and title sequences for Dr. Strangelove and A Clockwork Orange. Mr. Kubrick encouraged Pablo to move his commercial operations to London, providing him with a large flat and twenty-four hour car service in order to extend their collaboration. Pablo has contributed to over 100 films and television shows, including his own feature Me, Myself & I and the movie documentary of the Rolling Stones’, Let’s Spend the Night Together (in association with his best friend Hal Ashby). His films include Academy Award winners Good Will Hunting, As Good As It Gets, L.A. Confidential, Men in Black, Philadelphia, Beetlejuice, Being There, Midnight Cowboy, The Thomas Crown Affair, and Bullitt – more than a dozen Oscar Nominated Films with surely more to come! Mr. Ferro has won over seventy national and international awards, among them numerous Clio’s, a DGA Excellence in Film Award, and several Lifetime Achievement awards. He has also received nominations from such highly regarded institutions as the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt (twice) for which Laura Bush invited him to the White House, and from the AVA for his work as supervising editor of Michael Jackson’s Beat It. Pablo was inducted into the Art Directors Hall of Fame and awarded the prestigious Daimler Chrysler Design Award among his many other honors. In the late 70’s, Hal Ashby moved him to California and he hasn’t looked back since. His son, Allen Ferro, has assisted in the illustrations for The Two Sisters’ Café, Pablo working the pencil and ink, Allen doing magic on the computer. Pablo’s website a is at http://www.pabloferro.net/