Illustration

Illustrator for The Griffin’s Boy!

Posted by on Dec 7, 2023 in BOOK: Griffin's Boy, Illustration | 0 comments

I’m so excited to announce that Anna Aparicio Català is going to be doing cover and interior art for The Griffin’s Boy! I just love her lively, fluid, energetic line work and her utterly sweet animals. It will be a gorgeous book!

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American Born Chinese

Posted by on May 24, 2023 in Childhood, Children's Literature, Illustration, What I've Been Reading | 0 comments

Anybody who is interested in or cares about children’s literature, or graphic novels, or Asian-American culture, or just basically anything should read Jamie Fisher’s article about Gene Wang’s unparalleled American Born Chinese and the upcoming Disney adaptation (for which I cannot wait).

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Odd E-Mails

Posted by on Jul 9, 2021 in BOOK: A Pandemic Is Worldwide, Illustration, Nonfiction, SERIES: Let's Read and Find Out | 0 comments

Infographic-in-progress. Note HUGENESS of the Black Death.

Infographic-in-progress. Note HUGENESS of the Black Death.

Sometimes when you take a step or two back from a project, you can’t quite believe you are writing serious, professional e-mails to a colleague that go like this:

The page looks empty and the pandemics themselves seems kind of inconsequential in all that space. I mean, the Black Death should be HUGE…. We do need to do something about the circle for COVID…. Right now it’s about the same size as the 1918 Influenza, when it should really be between the Third Bubonic Plague and Ebola, closer to Ebola.

This is what it looks like when you’re finishing up a picture book on pandemics and you need to get the final infographic just right.

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Illustration Competition

Posted by on Apr 26, 2021 in Illustration, PIcture Books | 0 comments

202103241657362869bd61Astra Publishing is running a competition for illustrators–a great way for artists to get your work in front of editors and art directors as well as, perhaps, win a bit of prize money.

Picture book art is such a rich and fascinating form of visual expression–I know I don’t understand as much about it as illustrators and designers do, but I love the complexity of it, the way a good illustrator will capture character and interaction and action and emotion, at the same time moving the reader’s eye deeper into the book, and of course remembering to avoid the gutter! When done well, it sweeps the reader along so easily that it can be hard to remember to slow down and appreciate the detail and the skill. Illustrators, I salute you!

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