These days I think my tastes are a little broader. Leyendecker, Alphonse Mucha, Albrecht Dürer, Bernie Wrightson, and Maxfield Parrish, to name a few. I think a number of historical illustrators were also very inspirational: Pauline Baynes, Arthur Rackham, J.C. Also a lot of the regular contributing artists that TSR used for Dragon and Dungeon magazines as well as interior illustrations: Valerie Valusek, Stephen Fabian, Jeff Dee, Jim Holloway, Tom Baxa, Jennell Jaquays – the list goes on. The TSR staff artists of the 80s and early 90s – Larry Elmore, Jeff Easley, Fred Fields, Brom, Keith Parkinson, Clyde Caldwell, Robh Ruppel – were my heroes. When I started playing RPGs, I got more into fantasy art and illustration. My dad is a bronze sculptor and that got me interested in art in general. Yeah, growing up it’s all I ever thought I would do. Some are made in Taiwan, some in Japan, some by Waterford in Wisconsin – they’re all great, honestly. On the higher end, you could buy a bike from Rivendell, a company that focuses heavily on daily riders and commuters. Public is a US company ostensibly inspired by Dutch city bikes, though their frames are all (AFAIK) made in Taiwan. Taiwanese builders are typically contracted by American, European, and Japanese brands.Ī good friend of mine has had a Public step-through for years and years that she still rides every week. However, there aren’t many Taiwanese brands in the American market. Taiwan manufactures a huge amount of frames and components. The majority of good bikes/frames these days are manufactured in Taiwan. There are also many, many small American companies (1-10 employees) making bikes, but they’re all quite expensive and even those companies generally focus more on enthusiast bikes than commuter bikes. They’re targeted more at the high end of the market (where people would pay for domestic labor, which is much more expensive). As far as I know, they don’t make any city bikes. Probably the largest scale American production house is Waterford Precision Cycles in Waterford, WI (coincidentally, a few miles from my parents’ house). When you ask about companies in America, I can list a few, but you should know that very, very few bicycle companies of any significant size still do domestic bike production. Those are often referred to as city bikes because they’re intended for relatively short distance commutes and chores in urban environments.
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