December 5, 2011 – 10:53 am
Woolly Pocket makes different kinds of gardening containers made out of recycled plastics and promotes gardening education for children through their Woolly School Garden program. I was commissioned to illustrate this picture book written by Douglas Hammer, designed by Justina Blakeney and managed and published by Miguel Nelson and his Woolly Pocket company. The book [...]
August 30, 2011 – 12:00 pm
Above is the animation as it appeared on the end credits of the season one “Baseball” episode of Portlandia. The episode was directed by Jonathan Krisel, and the animation designed and animated by me. See the pencil test, line art inked, and then painted below:
August 30, 2011 – 11:56 am
GO FOR THE GOLD! 4 is the fourth issue of Meathaus‘s anthology of sketchbook art. This issue includes the drawings of 39 international artists in an impressive 379 pages. I edited and designed the book and drew the wrap around cover art. Issue 4 as well as issue 3 and 2 are available to purchase [...]
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 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 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 [...]
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 [...]
I art directed and designed this book full of art from Bill Plympton’s career and films as well as his personal story written by himself and David B. Levy. It was a pleasure and honor to work on a second book that focused on an important figure in independent animation (after my first book, Unfiltered: [...]
I Am 8-Bit Productions called again to get me to produce some t-shirt designs. This time it was for a Lost Planet 2 release party. The twist was that there was to be an interactive component to the shirts. A company in L.A. called Fresh Pressed specializes in custom, on-demand, do-it-yourself screen printing services and [...]
