An early sample of TOTEM TALE arrived today! Yahoo! Its only being printed in paperback, but the PAWS IV imprint of Sasquatch books does a v...

E is for... Erik's ennui. Since the IF topic segues so nicely into the title of my blog, a little self portrait (sans glasses) seems onl...

For about a month, my daughter has been having LOTS of trouble sleeping... Improvements of late have been due in large part to visits from ...

Leading with the good :) I recently confirmed that my first illustrated book of 2005, Monkey Business: Stories from Around the World was na...

Nothing illustrated today. Rather reeling from many many holiday guests over the past three weeks and thus my decided lack of contribution. ...

Imagine what would happen if an ancient totem pole came to life...This is from a Sasquatch Books publication due out in April 2006 - A Tote...

At last, the final stage of the Boo's Dinosaur cover that has been stepping along in my postings of late. I suppose that I might bump u...

Electric Sunrise

After slight derailment, the night train rallys! I'd have been better off letting a few more of these plastic dinosaurs get to work, but...

I will make a few more additions and then post the final art. The "one of those nights" theme has been further enlivened by the fa...

Inked. It has been drying for an hour + and soon will be ready for the wash and just a little bit of colored pencil.

After some time adjusting the sketch, adding just a little "age" to Boo, and refining the foreground/background perspective on he...

Here it goes, one of those inescapable realities (for me at least) of work as an author & illustrator: the all nighter! Part of me loves...

With due respect to Phil Collins, here is a current view or two of my studio: Also, its going to be one of those nights... With the Boo dea...

Blue Mondays...

Gone is gone.

A small contribution from my current book project. Back to creating IF originals next week!

Hope that everyone had a happy turkey day! A pleasant surprise in my neck o' the world as we woke up to 5 inches of snow and cold cold t...

In the midst of artwork for BOO'S DINOSAUR written by Betsy Byars. I posted a sketch for this image earlier and now you can see where i...

Free d at last from his ancient prison, the Monkey King quickly proved himself a demanding, boastful, arrogant beast -- rampaging though the...