Archive for November, 2007



me! in a book!

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

me

A new book about children's books was just published and I'm interviewed in it. Written by Martin Salisbury, it involves showing some work and interviewing many of my favorite artists inclucing Alexis Deacon, Shaun Tan, and Sara Fanelli. It's mostly European and Asian in direction. The only two Americans, in fact, are J. Otto and myself. Go get it. I'm in some fantastic company and I'm just really pleased. (For the record, the quote regarding Lane Smith was misinterpreted. I was going to play accordion at one Lane Smith signing, but it never actually happened. Lane's cool with it…)

me again

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Talk 'n Tracks

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

I just realized that I haven't posted anything about this cool thing that I illustrated for Cranium this last Spring. Actually, there are two of them. One is set in an colorful jungle full of exotic wildlife, and the other is set in a funny ocean teeming with friendly whales and piranhas. Here are two larger views (click on them):

Talk 'n Tracks

Each of the puzzles has a battery-operated vehicle, a monkey in a banana for the jungle, and a seal for the ocean one. As the monkey/seal passes by the various animals and scenes, sound effects are triggered. The pieces can be rearranged in a multitude of ways creating hours and hours of endless amusement. Cranium hasn't bothered to put it on their site (!!), but it's available at Amazon dot com and Target.
I drew all the illustrations, which was interesting as I had to carefully follow the template path that had already been engineered.

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It was a real challenge getting everything lined up just right.
At a recent open studio here it was a real hit with the kids…

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