Welcome to my new blog, which now includes content from many of the blogs I’ve created over the years. You can now also access content via category from this one page instead of having to search for my individual blogs, which were scattered over various platforms and websites.
Thanks to Jim Hill for inspiring this comic with his “metaphor mixologist” phrase on Twitter. When I was working on the comic, I got curious about mixed metaphors and did some research…and of course immediately fell into the Black Hole Of The Internet. Sooo many interesting links! I could browse . . .
For more info about Karen Krossing and BOG, see KarenKrossing.com. Also see Debbie’s Reading Journal as well as Debbie’s Bookstagram.
Congrats to my friend Brian Won, whose HOORAY FOR HAT! launches today from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. I met Brian through the SCBWI Illustration Mentorship program (see today’s THANK YOU to the SCBWI), and he’s one of the nicest guys you could hope to meet. You can find out more about HOORAY FOR . . .
Congrats to my friend Arree Chung, whose NINJA! launches today from Henry Holt. I met Arree at one of the Lost Weekends hosted by David Diaz. NINJA! is published by Henry Holt, and here’s a plot summary from Arree’s website: “A ninja must be strong, courageous, and silent! He creeps through the house on a . . .
Martha Rago, Associate Creative Director at HarperCollins Children’s Books I recently posted two mini-interviews with Martha Rago and Lauren Rille over on the KidLitArtists blog. With the SCBWI Summer Conference coming up, I asked HarperCollins Associate Creative Director Martha Rago about how SCBWI portfolio showcases help publishers HarperCollins Children’s find illustrators. Martha says . . .
I’ve been posting a lot of cheerful/cute found object art on social media lately. More recently, I was trying to work with some grass seed heads as a squirrel tail (before I started drawing) and it kept disintegrating on me. And I thought, “IT FIGURES THAT THIS WOULD HAPPEN ON A . . .