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EXTRA! EXTRA! Cartoon Boy by John Kerschbaum

April 6, 2010 in Books, Cartoons, Comics, Friends | No comments

This just in (literally, since I just received the email): John Kerschbaum’s Cartoon Boy is now available for your reading pleasure. John is one of my favorite cartoonists and one of a very, very, very few that can make me laugh out loud. So, imagine my unbridled, cartoon-o-gastic joy to discover that his strip Cartoon Boy is now running on the ACT-I-VATE comics website. Go and laugh.  And to give you an indication of what you are in for, behold the Kerschbaum Darwins. John drew these for me when I was doing The Sandwalk Adventures. He did a serious take on Darwin and then a Kerschbaum take. Both are great and appear in the book’s annotations.

JKDarwins

The Earwig’s Tail

September 29, 2009 in Books, Illustration | 5 comments

It was my great pleasure to have a chance to work with eminent entomologist May Berenbaum last year. May has a new book out called The Earwig’s Tail. It is an A-Z bestiary of insect myths that May dispatches with a great deal of wit. I was lucky enough to be asked to do the illustrations. The publisher used two of my illustrations on the cover.
earwig

I tried to do the illustrations in the style of a Medieval Bestiary. You can judge how successful I was. Here is the original illustration featuring the earwig (it’s teeny tiny of the cover).

B_Earwing_web

For those interested in the process, I would read May’s essay and then generate 2-7 rough sketches and post them on my website for her to consider. She would tell me which one she liked and I would ink it. On a few occassions it was “none of the above” and I would head by to the drawing board. Follow this link to see the seven rough sketches I did for the Headless Cockroach essay. The final illustration is below.

H_roach_web