I’m always a wee bit nervous about sharing my darker/quirkier work, but I’m trying very hard this year to post stuff I enjoy doing even if I know it won’t get a lot of Likes or comments. This, for example, is a dark comic I did years ago when I . . .
One of the biggest misconceptions about writing picture books, I’ve noticed, goes something like “While I’m working on my REAL book, I think I’ll write a picture book or two for some extra cash. They’re so short, after all.” Here’s my post about why short does NOT mean easy when it . . .
The news is official: Urban Tapestry (my filk music group) has been invited to be the Guests Of Honor at Conflikt in Seattle, WA next January! Toastmaster will be our dear friend Rob Wynne and the Interfilk Guest will be Brett Glass. Allison Durno, Jodi Krangle and I are totally thrilled! None of us . . .
NOTE: This is an updated version of a post I made a while back. For those illustrate as well as write, you’re welcome to download and print my free picture book thumbnail templates. So many people think that short = easy, especially when it comes to picture books. And while yes, . . .
UPDATED November 25, 2016: This is a post I made on my personal Facebook wall earlier this year. I’m posting it here so I can refer back to this post sometimes. For those of you don’t know me personally, feel free to follow me on what is going to be . . .
Neither Jeff nor I consider ourselves public dancers. We’ve never been into the nightclub dancing scene. At friends’ weddings, we’d rather sit and chat with people rather than go out on the dance floor. It depends on the crowd, though. I dance in my office in private sometimes. I know . . .
Doodled with a pomegranate seed during breakfast this morning. For lighting this time, I decided to take my pomegranate doodle outside to use the morning sunlight. As I experimented with tilting the piece of watercolour paper to minimize the shadow, I heard one of my neighbours leave for work and . . .
Gratitude Post: Thank you to Ryan Couldrey for his 2007 post in blogTO about my Will Write For Chocolate comic. Because of this post, interest in my webcomic soared and I also started getting a lot more Google juice in my online projects. Keep in mind that this was THREE YEARS before any . . .