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.
***For those asking whether I’m doing a found object book, please see About My Food Art, Found Object Book Update and Other Found Object Artists. “A Portrait In Ink And Parsley”: click image to see responses when I posted this Found Art doodle on Twitter. (Edit: Thanks so much to Chicago . . .
Back in September, I posted about being obsessed with the WHAT DOES THE FOX SAY? music video, and was trying to identify the children’s picture book featured in the video: Thanks to all who tried to help me. Cathy Ballou Mealey, for example, asked her friend Norwegian children’s book writer and illustrator, Svein . . .
After reading a New York Times article about adult-themed children’s book parodies for adults, I asked you all how you felt about kids’ books for adults. Thanks to all who participated. Most of you are neutral to iffy about them. One person says that children’s book parodies make a fair amount of . . .
(Last updated: December 10, 2013) I have an Etsy shop but haven’t had anything posted for sale in ages (I might start selling prints and some handmade oddities in 2014, though). While doing some holiday shopping on Etsy recently, I became curious about other children’s book illustrators who had shops. I’ve posted . . .
Click image above for print-ready PDF; feel free to use to help spread the word. Prints fine in b&w, too. Founded by suspense writer Jenny Milchman, Take Your Child To A Bookstore Day is about “instilling a love of bookstores in children so that they will value and support this most precious of . . .
Jeff and I got back from BoardGameGeek last night. After being away for a week, we had a pile of snailmail to go through. Mine was Very Nice Snailmail and included: (1) Check from Penguin Books for the use of one of my writing comics. I love checks. 🙂 (2) Note from . . .
Eek. Did you know that Japan has squirrel gardens?!? One of the best known is Machida Risu-en, which apparently has over 200 squirrels running rampant. (Thanks to Michelle Henninger-Ainscough for the link.)