Interesting piece over on Nuvo about former editorial cartoonist and now illustrator Stacy Curtis and friend Dave Windisch who have been doing screen printing and posters printing under the business name Mile 44 since 2004 for indie bands. Mile 44, as the duo is known, began printing in Chicago in 2004. After learning the craft […]
Mr. Lowe and Lucky Cow creator Mark Pett will be releasing his first picture book this fall. The book is entitled The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes and was a collaboration with Gary Rubinstein. Mark was kind enough to answer a few questions about his book and whether illustration will be his new career direction. […]
Maurice Sendak, probably most famous for his childrens book Where the Wild Things Are will be publishing his first in nearly 30 years. The new book is called Bumble-Ardy and will hit shelves in September. But in terms of a book completely his own, Bumble-Ardy is the first since 1981’s Outside Over There. Not that […]
Franklin Fibbs co-creator Wes Hargis is another cartoonist with art in the iTunes App Store. Wes illustrated Weird Al’s When I Grow Up book and did the artwork for the accompanying iPhone/iPod app. Over on the Three Men in a Tub blog, he’s posted some of the art that didn’t make it into the app. […]
Sad news from Mike Lynch: Veteran cartoonist, animator and creator of the popular DRAW 50 how-to-draw cartoon book series Lee Ames died in a Huntington, NY nursing home last week. He was 90 years old. The cause was congestive heart failure.