This Weekend I Thought I'd Share Just A Tiny Sliver Of The Books On My Wishlist That Are All Debuting

For the past couple of months, I’ve been madly preparing for May Day in Baltimore with an event in celebration of Robin Hardy’s The Wickerman. My friend Melissa LaMartina and I organized the event complete with bands playing songs from the soundtrack, burlesque performances, an actual maypole with an actual maypole dance (thank you Chuck and Chelsea!), a humongous wickerman photobooth (seen above, featuring me in my Summerisle lady garb and our very own Lord Summerisle himself), and an art show featuring gorgeous work from artists Monica Amneus, Alan Brown, Michael Bukowski, Zé Burnay, Shirley Chan, Jeanne D'Angelo, Alex Fine, Mandi Johnson, Justine Jones, Cailin Marie, Janna Morton, Becca Stadtlander, Maureen Sullivan, and Jabari Weathers. Jimmy Giegerich also designed a shirt from Pizza Party Printing specially for the event (and you can get that shirt here). I designed and illustrated the poster, a 2-color limited-edition screen print, which you can get here for $15.

Everything about Sunday was a blast and I couldn’t be more proud of how it turned out or more thrilled by all the hard work and response by everybody involved.

And now, come. It’s time to keep your appointment with the wickerman.

A flower for Aisha.

My friends Rebecca Bradley and Janna Morton run the project Blooms of Nigeria, a blog whose goal is to present nearly 200 illustrated flowers, each for a different girl who was taken in the April kidnapping in Nigeria, and to keep the discussion and awareness of their plight alive. It's a terrible crisis, and recently, there have been new kidnappings of almost 100 girls and boys as well. There isn't much many of us reading about it from our computers can do to help directly with this situation, but at the very least, we can all keep talking about the problem, express our sadness and eagerness for a resolution. There is also an Amnesty International petition you can sign to help appeal to the Nigerian government for action.

Let's not forget about these girls. Let's all keep loudly hoping for their rescue.

hello! i'm a new follower of your lovely work. i noticed that you illustrate/paint using gouache but do you also work digitally? i find it hard to tell, even your illustration for meg hunt's art for japan could have passed for a digital piece with all the neat brushes out there. and i thought that your recent post might be digital but i'm not too sure anymore hehe. either way, i very much admire your work. it's truly inspirational.

Hello! I love new followers (just love you guys!), and thanks very much! Yes, you were on the right track, my most recent post is all digital. I work both with gouache and digitally pretty evenly most of the time, though if the frequency were to lean towards one or the other it would be digital actually. It's neat to know that that's not terribly apparent!

"Greetings dear reader, fellow student of the arcane such as you must be. You have selected this guide in your search for a spirit ally, a familiar..."

I'm psyched to announce my newest zine debuting at SPX this September, Warlow's Guide to Wizards, Sorceri & Familiars Arcane. It's a helpful tome for young magi as they make the important choice of a familiar that will accompany them throughout their magical growth. Featuring illustrations of notable witches and wizards and their partners, along with specimen charts and helpful notes from the "author" himself, the great wizard Warlow.

Printed on Cougar natural off-white stock with 3-color interiors and a screen-printed cover. I'm having tons of fun creating these characters and I'm excited for you to see the zine in its entirety at the expo. Hope to see you there!

(Check it out on SPX's debut page here.)

I want to watch the sun set on Mars with you.

A little warm-up piece inspired by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover, Spirit's photos, which are just incredibly moving, right?

Bust Mag

I recently did this piece for Bust Magazine's Oct/Nov issue on newstands now, for the article "Backseat Drivers No More" as part of their News From A Broad section. Big thanks to my AD Erin Wengrovius who pushed for those sweet pink lucite wayfarers.

Lookbooks!

my new mini sketchbooks

brush ink brush

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Jimmy Giegerich's galacticly-awesome mash up of Katamari and Zelda...on a shirt! which you can buy!

Hey guys!  I’m totally psyched to announce that Pizza Party Printing now has a new shirt called Katamari of Time available for pre-order on our website! Check out a Katamari-fied Link rolling up Bosses, Baddies, and Items from one of the most beloved entries in the Legend of Zelda series!  This image will be printed in full color on a white tee and only costs $18 + shipping, or as a pre-order exclusive white hoodie for $30 +shipping!!!

This is the first in a series of shirts that we’re going to be doing based on mashing Katamari Damacy with some of our all-time favorite video games, so keep your eyes peeled for more!

CLICK HERE FOR T-SHIRT ORDERING INFO and HERE FOR HOODIE ORDERING INFO

My man Jimmy is putting together a zine called Bits & Multiples of 8 for video game fan art from the original Nintendo system to Nintendo 64 (Sega + Playstation included), and he's just put out a call for submissions on his blog! The cover features characters from tons of games (see if you can name them all) and will make a lovely 4-color screen print on a lovely zine full of lovely work. Check it out! It'll be rad.