I had a great time at the Mt Airy Kids' Literary Festival this weekend. I even got my picture in the paper.
Hope everyone there had as much fun. The Boy Who Cried Alien is a great book to read aloud.
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Monday, April 16th, 2012
Tags: Mt Airy Kids Literary Festival, newsworks, The Boy who cried Alien
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Friday, April 13th, 2012
The annual Mt Airy Kids' Literary Festival begins tonight at Big Blue Marble book store. I'll be there tonight with my daughter for Amy Ignatow's Popularity Papers Pizza Party, and I'll be there in a more official way reading The Boy Who Cried Alien at 2pm on Saturday April 14.
There's a piece in the Phila Inquirer today about this, and here's what they say about my little part:
Brian Biggs will read The Boy Who Cried Alien, a cry-wolf story with a plot that evokes at least one Radiohead song ("Subterranean Homesick Alien").
"Aliens have landed and nobody's buying it," said the book's illustrator, whose panel-by-panel storytelling reflects his comic-book influence.
Biggs plans to have fun with the voices of the visiting aliens, the young boy – unaffectionately nicknamed Larry the Liar – and his fellow townspeople.
"It's a big, bold-colored, funny book," he said. "There's gonna be a lot of laughing."
I'm not misquoted. It will be funny. I will read in funny voices. The aliens speak foreign languages. Radiohead is a stretch, though…
Big Blue Marble is at 551 Carpenter Lane, Philadelphia, PA 19119
Tags: Big Blue Marble Books, Mt Airy, Philadelphia
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Thursday, March 29th, 2012
I can tell I've been rather stupid-busy drawing new stuff, as I don't normally let an opportunity to toot my horn go un tooted. Somehow last year, sometime between Everything Goes: On Land, Everything Goes: In the Air, The Boy Who Cried Alien, and three Brownie & Pearl books, I found time to fit in an ad campaign for Rubio's Restaurants, a San Diego chain that specializes in fish tacos, among other treats. This was kind of a get-it-done-yesterday job, as most advertising is, and it came to me because of the complex Where's Waldo-style tendencies that I have.
Well I got an email last week from Lisa Schiavello, the creative director of the campaign, that the campaign won an Addy award for Red Door Interactive, the agency responsible for creating the ad and hiring me. It took a couple of days before I realized exactly what had happened. The Addys are a pretty big deal in the advertising community and it's nice to have a project that my drawings are all over recognized, and it's even nicer to have a client be that much happier about the work that was done. It never hurts to have ad agencies love you in this business.
You can read about the Addy for Red Door here, here, and here.
And a post from last September about it here.
Tags: Addy, Red Door, Rubio's
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Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
Jules Danielson wrote last fall demanding asking that I allow her to write up Everything Goes on her terrific blog called Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast (it's an Alice in Wonderland reference). Since I believe Seven Impossible Things is about the best book blog out there, I said "duh of course." (When I told Sacha, the fiancée about it, she said something like "Oh my God! Are you kidding me?! I love that blog!")
It took me too long to send Jules the images and words about the book that she needed, as I've been a bit snowed under first from the holidays and then (as always) from working on the second Everything Goes book, which is, of course, late. But last week, appropriately over breakfast, I went through and collected a lot of sketches, thumbnails, and other images from the early stages of the book and sent them along. I've been hoping to put them on my own site somewhere, and may still do so, but I figured that Seven Impossible Things would be a really good place for them to live as well.
So pour another cup of coffee, chew your cornflakes, and go forth to the write-up.
Tags: breakfast, Everything Goes, Jules Danielson, Julie Danielson, Seven Impossible Things, sketches
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Friday, January 6th, 2012
Betsy Bird posted her list of her favorite children's books of 2011. She's got a really nice list of 100 books, which includes terrific work by the likes of Lane Smith, Jon Klassen, Kevin Henkes, Patrick McDonell, Chris Rylander, and Shel Silverstein. Imagine my surprise when I clicked the link to the page and saw my book staring back at me. I'm pleased. Pleased I say.
Tags: 2011, Betsy Bird, Everything Goes, list, NYPL
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Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
I've made a kajillion designs for Mudpuppy/Galison over the last several years, starting with the Air, Land & Sea puzzle that was one of the inspirations for the Everything Goes series I'm currently writing and illustrating. They recently started a new section on their website called "Illustrator Spotlight" and they decided to make me a subject of curiosity. It was a fun little interview and I encourage you all to go and buy a kajillion Mudpuppy products to give for the happy holidays this year.
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