About Us

In 1992 artist Jon Strongbow began working on a series of pen & ink drawings featuring indigenous peoples from all walks of life, mythologies, endangered species, and extinct species, all taking place in Chief Seattle’s city.

Jon joined Pike Place Market in 1999, and it has allowed him to continue creating and, thankfully, make enough dough to pay his rent. The original drawings are pen and ink, and Jon now has inkjet prints of those on 50-pound paper, sized 18×24.

He also purchased a paper that is neutral to the blacklight, and Jon hand-colors them in, so they glow. These are sized to 14×18.

Then he has his “poor man’s blacklight prints” that look great under regular light and appear to glow because they are photo reproductions of the blacklight effect. These are 11×14 and 8×10. All standard sizes, so they are easy to frame.

Jon has three black and white graphic novels and two books on the Market: A History of Surrealism at the market and the more recent one concerning street performers or buskers. These are both lavishly illustrated with art and photographs.