A surprise book: Bad to the Bone
Maybe it's because of my initials, but when I was little, I was determined to become a vet when I grew up. In fact, I got my first job at the age of 11, working for a vet at...
Facing facts
To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour. William Blake - Auguries of Innocence I have been reading...
An Illustrated Life preview in HOW
The August 08 issue of HOW magazine has a healthy preview of my upcoming book, An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration From The Private Sketchbooks Of Artists, Illustrators And Designers. You'll find sketchbooks and interviews with seven contributors as well...
An Illustrated Life Podcast 004: Kurt D. Hollomon (Part I)
Time for another in my series of podcast interviews with cool sketchbook keepers. Are you enjoying them? I first encountered Kurt Hollomon's work when Dan Price sent me an outdoor gear catalog from Royal Robbins which Kurt had illustrated....
An Illustrated Life: the Podcast
One of the most exciting aspects of working on my upcoming book, "An Illustrated Life: drawing inspiration form the private sketchbooks of artists, illustrators and designers" has been the chance to get in touch with the many artists whose...
Ex Libris Video
Click To Play This is a little video with vague reviews of some new books I've gotten and quite liked. If you'd like to get copies of any of the books I mention in this video and rebutt my...
School for Evil - exploratory
Toward the end of Fall semester of my sophomore year, I found a small reading room deep within the bowels of my college library. It was called "The Somebody or Other Memorial Hunting and Fishing Library" and was almost...
An Illustrated Life
Amanda Kavanagh's workspace. From my new book, "An Illustrated Life". I apologize for how long it has been since I last wrote any sort of decent blog entry. It’s not that I’ve been sitting around paring my toenails and...
Idol effort
It was very nice to come back to the Arctic tundra formally known as New York City. My family survived my absence though my dogs did need a good bath yesterday. As you may know, I am a big...
EDM in Paperback! Wahoo!
We just got the very first brand-spanking new edition of my book, Everyday Matters. It is so damned cute in paperback! It will be officially available on January 9th, just in time for early 2007 Xmas shoppers. Get it...
Groceries
Harry Kalmer of Johannesburg invited me (and lots of talented artists including EDMers Michael Nobbs, Nancy Ghandi, and Trevor Romain) to contribute illustrations for his new book, Groceries: 56 Stories Oor Huishopudelike Produkte. (If that title seems a little...
HOW on newstands
I am very excited by the new issue of How magazine. The cover I designed looks great in print (and actually features my name - a first) and I am pleased with the 8 page article I wrote and...
EDM in paperback
Hyperion will be publishing my book, Everyday Matters, in paperback in January, '06. It will have a nice simplified cover that I painted this Spring....
Oh, yeah, I wrote a book
This ad ran this week. I had the odd experience of being art director, illustrator, copywriter, mechanical artists, account executive, and product manager on the ad. Fortunately, my publisher placed and paid for the media. I wonder if it...
Nice email
Danny, I am a 43 year-old Special Ed. teacher in IN. I have always been an art fanatic and took many lessons way back in my teen years. Since then I have just "dabbled". I had to take a "leave"...
Everyday Matters now available every day
It seems that Everyday Matters, my second book, is finally freshly available again ... and for less than ten bucks. It went back on press recently and Amazon is now shipping it in 24 hours. If you get it, do...
Two Sundays
Last Sunday I was the guest on Louden Clear, Jennifer Louden's show on the Martha Stewart Living Network on Sirius 112. It was a great talk, about drawing, meditation, and various aspects of my books and art work. Jennifer...
Fuh-ree-key!
This afternoon, Patti called me at work to tell me, "It's here!". And when I got home, there, sure enough, it was. We immediately started drawing parallels. Jack reminded me that Homer Simpson had found a box of Japanese...
TCL: Supplementary Material, IV: Andrea
I first met Andrea Scher through her blog, Superhero Journal. Within days of roaming through her posts, I was hooked. Being hooked meant more than just loving her photos and learning so much from her wisdom and compassion. It...
TCL: Supplementary Material, III: Richard
As readers of this site probably know by now, Richard Bell is an extraordinary nature illustrator who, despite the many miles and water between us, is one of my very best pals and a major influence and teacher. When...
R.Bell on C.License
R.Bell just wrote the most extremely nice thing on his site. Read it while I blush....
TCL: Supplementary Material, I: Roz
The first installment of a series on "Stuff that didn't make it into The Creative License"
Peanut (complete)
Read, Peanut, my memoir of fatherhood entirely for free and online. Each chapter is linked below: Introduction Plan Nine (September) Dead Rabbit and Beyond (November) Dead Rabbit and Beyond (November) Part II Cup-a-Soup and Candy Canes (December) Mad Dog...
Between the covers
A tour of my brand new book and some early reviews. If you like this site, journaling, drawing, art, etc, you will like this book. If you want to jumps start your creativity, please read on.
Better idea!
David Kjellquist just sent me a far better idea for the Xmas swap
The Great Christmas Swap
A quick and easy way to make sure you have a wonderful holiday season.
It's real!
We just received the very first copy of my new book.... Quick, pre-order yourself a copy!
Jack's first days
The new installment of Peanut, up today. Includes discussion of genital mutilation, oral fixation, insomnia, and breasts, breasts, breasts....
Mon nouveau livre
Last Thanksgiving, Patti and I took a lovely trip to Paris and I made about sixty illustrations for Eric Maisel's book, A Writers Paris: A Guided Journey For The Creative Soul . The book is on store shelves now...
Blanking
I totally forgot to mention that there was a new installment of Peanut last week. Or was it the week before. I'm losing it. Anyway, check it out. Maybe let me know if I'm wasting my time with the...
New Book of the Day
I did a hundred dog drawings for this cool book but I have no idea how they are going to be used. I guess I'll find out in a couple of months when it comes out....
Approved!
I decided to make my struggle to design this cover less public than last time. I had all sorts of slick and contrived ideas but in the end decided to keep it simple. This is based on a drawing...
Cover coverage
Whoa! Opinions about my cover designs have flooded in and they were fantastically useful. Covers are tough. They have to evoke the book and also jump off the shelf. My friend Paul who designs a lot of wonderful covers (including...
Re-Cover
We are designing a new cover for the paperback edition of Everyday Matters and I would appreciate your input. Post a comment on which of the five designs you prefer and, if you are the owner of the hard-cover...
Second Base
Two spreads from Tom Kane's journals recording models he was considering in casting his ads for Steve Madden shoes. I realize I haven't said much about the project that has consumed much of my time since Spring: writing my...
Recent opinions
"...Funny and wise..." - Deseret News "...chuckles galore..." - U.S. News & World Report "...oddly charming." - Chicago Sun Times...
Change Your Underwear Twice a Week
I was on NPR's Morning Edition today. If you'd like to hear more about my new book and excerpts from some filmstrips, listen to my interview with Renee Montagne on-line....
On the Radio
I have begun doing interviews to tell people about my new book, Change Your Underwear Twice a Week: A week ago, I was interviewed by Reader's Digest - they're planning a feature on the book for November. Last Thursday,...
At Last!
I just received my first copy of my new book! It looks great and I am so excited to finally have it in hand. Well, once Jack Tea is done with his turn....
What does not kill me makes me stronger.
Two years ago, the manuscript of what was to be "Everyday Matters" was lying in a drawer. At the time, it was pretty much like the book that's in stores today but it was called simply "A New York Diary"....
A record of my exploration into all aspects of drawing, illustrated journaling, creativity, and the inspiring aspects of art. By the author of "Everyday Matters," "The Creative License", and "An Illustrated Life" and other books.