Tuesday Mourning has the holiday spirit!

Tuesday Mourning the FANTASTIC illustrator who did the cover four next book, “Stonewall Hinkleman,” is giving away two incredible gifts/prizes.
First, a portrait of anyone you wish. Her nifty little portraits are simply splendid! I would be torn between getting one of a loved one or getting her to do me a little drawing of Stonewall.
The [...]

Bee-Wigged Blog Tour is right here!

Welcome to Day One of the Bee-Wigged Blog Tour!
Since I’m going first, I’ve decided to do a little synopsis of this smashing picture book. That’ll also give me a chance to show some of my favorite pictures from the book:
“Bee-Wigged”
by Cece Bell (my lovely wife & co-conspirator)
 Jerry Bee just wants to be nice. But he’s such [...]

Famous author or soon-to-be famous Bee?

Hey, that giant bee looks like famous author Sam Riddleburger if Sam was geeky looking instead of handsome!
You too can get your picture taken as Jerry Bee, star of “Bee-Wigged” by Cece bell, at the Bee-Wigged launch party Nov. 22. For more details (or to see Cece as jerry Bee) head to www.cecebell.com .
After that the [...]

Satan’s back … Emberley style

Here’s the third Ed Emberley devil … and I haven’t even looked in the Red and Orange books yet. (Alas, i don’t own them … yet.)
As a final salute to the Great One (and, again, I mean Mr. Emberley, not Lucifer) here’s Dracula in His Car…

Boy is it fun to draw Ed Emberley stuff on [...]

Halloween with Tomie & the scary jumping red-leg bald guy!

Of course I know who Tomie de Paola is now, but I always thought that I had missed out on him when I was a kid. (Just like I mostly missed out on James Marshall. Who knows why?)
But recently, I discovered that a book that absolutely fascinated me as a kid — Monsters of the [...]

Halloween with Ed Emberley

Some readers may recall that a few weeks ago I had a post about Satan in books and as a little joke I made up an Ed Emberley-style devil:

It was meant to be a joke, but it did sort of ring a bell. Since then I’ve found two Ed Emberley devils. One, from “Make a [...]

Canada loves Jerry Bee!

Here’s a post from www.cecebell.com…
Someone up in Calgary must have a soft spot for big, friendly, wig-wearing bees…
 
The Calgary Public Library system has already ordered 12 copies of Bee-Wigged!

Sam’s (almost) Daily Kidlit Trivia Up Quark

Time for another round of Name that Poultry (illustrator).

I don’t think these little guys have names, so you just have to identify the illustrator for 100 points. For 100,000 points name the book.
 
Answer to the previous question: The book/album/show “Free To Be You and Me” was inspired when Marlo Thomas decided that every existing piece [...]

A Cece Bell foamdoodle…

Lots of craziness around here as we prepare for the Tomato Festival, work on books and I continue the weekly struggle to write my three newspaper columns and such. So, I haven’t been a’blogging much.
But, Cece found a moment to doodle with some sticky craft foam and here’s the happy result:

Blackhand Gang fans –> Gotten “Get a Clue” yet?

Two of the “Get a Clue” books are out now. I hope to have them in my possession soon. And two more will be out in Sept. (Somewhere around here there’s my review of the ARC for Get a Clue #1.)
I’ve been looking at some of Julian Press’ art on the German Amazon:

Here’s a Blackhand Gang [...]