Nerds With Kids Interview a Nerd Without Any

The blog Nerds With Kids asked me some good questions recently. Have a look if you want to know what I think about Spiderman 3 or Joss Whedon.

Character in Search of a Story #5

MR. BABY, The Boy With No Birthday
See also C.S.S. numbers one, two, three, and four.

Fan Art!

Illustration rock star Rodrigo Avilés has sent some Abraham SuperLincoln fan art:

Go see it on his blog and then follow the links to find out what that spaghetti tree business is all about.
Thanks, Rodrigo!

Character in Search of a Story #4

TINY YETI
And here, as ever, are characters number one, number two, and number three.

Phony Tiny

I was just looking at photos on Brian Biggs' (Biggs's?) site (www.mrbiggs.com) and noticed this photo that looks like a miniature but isn't a miniature. I love these, so I thought I'd post my favorite of those that I've made. This is Memorial Hall in Fairmount Park, taken (not by me) from a small prop plane, altered (by me) in Photoshop, and absolutely not a photograph of a miniature.

Character in Search of a Story #3

ROOMBA 2.0
Click here to see Character in Search of a Story #1 and Character in Search of a Story #2.

Robert's Snow

I'm proud once again to create an original, snowflake-shaped painting for The Jimmy Fund and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The snowflake, and many others decorated by fellow kid's book creators, will be auctioned online to raise money for cancer research this fall. I'll post this again when the auction is underway in November, but here's a preview:

If you'd like to see the snowflake I painted for the last auction, click here.

Character in Search of a Story #2

G.I.(tract) JOE, THE CUDDLIEST TAPEWORM
Click here to see Character in Search of a Story #1.

Home.

Got back this afternoon, after 28 hours on airplanes and in airports and sleeping beneath an escalator with a beach towel under my head. Here are a few pictures from Kauai. There are chickens everywhere on the island, roaming free, getting into all kinds of chickenbusiness.

Kauai Turtle

I'm still on vacation, but I thought I'd post this sketch. It's of any one of the big sea turtles I've been snokeling with here in Kauai–they all look the same to me. That's not an ethnic slur, it's just the truth.
This was drawn strictly from memory, so I'm not claiming a high level of accuracy here. But I'm happy with it.