Author Archives: Chris McD

Oasis Garden

I recently finished a book of illustrations about camels and gardening, more info on that soon. Until then, here is a small detail of this massive four page fold-out spread from the book.

I Try It… Now You Buy It

My pal Jenny Drumgoole made the above video which according to the tags on YouTube includes: OS X Lion, exclusive preview, consumer review, T zone, shine, makeup, generic laxative, self defense, shopvac, lions blood, grease, transformers, operating system, and buffering. It also includes a cameo by me and a quick glimpse of Sasquatch’s Big Hairy [...]

The Joker

The Joker is the third book that I have designed for Universe and DC Comics. Written by Daniel Wallace, edited by Robb Pearlman and Steve Korté, with an introduction by Mark Hamill, this book provides a look at the Joker’s sordid history through bloody piles of art and comics; a similar approach to the Wonder [...]

Sasquatch’s Big Hairy Drawing Book

Sasquatch’s Big Hairy Drawing Book will be published in September 2011 by Chronicle Books. It is a drawing activity book that I wrote, illustrated and designed for kids and adults to enjoy scribbling in, doodling on and defacing in any manner they see fit. A website for the book is set up here: whyissasquatchcrying.com, and [...]

Constructing Green Lantern: From Page to Screen

Constructing Green Lantern: From Page to Screen was the second book that I designed for DC Comics and Universe. It was written by Ozzy Inguanzo and features an introduction by Geoff Johns. Ozzy was the perfect author of this movie book because he was part of the production team on the film itself. He was [...]

Do It Yourself Doodler

David Jablow is a cartoonist that was given an old drawing pad that had nothing on it except a half-finished woman in a strange position at the top of every sheet, and the phrase “do it yourself doodler”. So Dave filled in every sheet, and then posted them on the internet, and asked me to [...]

Tunes: A Comic Book History of Rock and Roll

Drawing in the Drawing Book

There’s no reason why you can’t make the whole book about drawing monsters! Here is Jay’s nephew showing off his Big Hairy Drawing Book creation. I love it. Sweet face stitches! It’s like walking into my older son’s day care class, those kids are always falling into stuff and getting facial stitches (my son included). [...]

Plympton Book

Just a link over to this recent mini interview with Bill Plympton and David B. Levy, authors of the Plympton book that I collaborated on them with! And oh wait, here is another good interview with Bill, over here!

Cartoon Brew

Today on Cartoon Brew Amid surprised me by writing up the first outside news on Sasquatch’s Big Hairy Drawing Book and caught my promo site and its linked Flickr stream with their pants down, so-to-speak. Now I know what I’ll be doing this morning: fixing them up in a hurry! Thanks for the mention Amid!