A project I did for Mudpuppy was published just recently. It's a 12-piece puzzle featuring those famous and extinct relatives of lizards (or birds if you adhere to those theories), the dinosaurs. T-rex, Brontosaurus, Stegosaurus, and Pterodactyl each make an appearance here.
Go get yours at your local favorite toy shop, or if that doesn't work, get it on the internet.
I got an email from my friend Julie, who was at the National Building Museum in Washington DC over the weekend. She found one of the puzzles I've made for Mudpuppy in the museum store and had her kid Owen pose with it for me. Owen looks excited!
Yesterday I was The Mall with my daughter and a friend of hers where we found I'm a T-Rex stuck in a huge shelf of Golden Books. This was kinda cool to find it there with The Poky Little Puppy and the other classics.
I've posted the illustration here previously, and now I can post the puzzle. And now you can go get it!
Galison/Mudpuppy commissioned this last year and released it this month. One side is colored by me and the other side is to be colored by you or your kids or friends.
This particular illustration was also just accepted into the 3×3 magazine children's illustration annual, along with my #6 race car collage.
A year or so ago I drew an illustration of cars and trucks and stuff on a spaghetti-tangle of highways. This was commissioned by the fantastic toy-maker/card-publisher/gift-creator Mudpuppy and their art director Cynthia Matthews. I've done a few projects in the past for them, including the Air Land Sea puzzle and the scribbling monster journal.
Here's the puzzle itself.
This puzzle got delayed a bit in the production, but was finally released last week. It's in a really nice little box and I'm very very pleased with the results. I got my small box of samples on Friday and immediately set to work putting the puzzle together. Furthermore, I recorded this process and made a movie which you can watch right here. Then, after you watch it, you can go to Mudpuppy's website and order a dozen or two of them.
Oh yeah, music by Dance Robot, Dance.
You may recall the Astronauts in Peril I posted during my recent month-long sojourn in Arkansas. This was a sketch for a puzzle I was drawing and designing for Galison/Mudpuppy. I've done quite a lot of work for Mudpuppy. In fact, over the last two or three years, the work for Mudpuppy has been my favorite in both the process and the results. So when Cynthia Matthews called and asked me to do a piece with aliens and planets and comets and stuff, I jumped on it.
I completed the puzzle last week. While it won't be published for almost a year (June 2010), I am happy to be able to show it off now. The timing is nice, as I'm about to start working on a book for Hyperion about aliens and I'd not quite yet figured out how I want it to look. This is a good start.
Below are four smaller detail images showing the puzzle in more detail.
I'm working on a new puzzle for MudPuppy that involves space: UFOs, aliens, comets, etc. These guys are outtakes from the sketches I've been working on. Nothing better than an astronaut in danger.
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