From the pages of Joe Death and the Graven Image author Benjamin Schipper illustrates key scenes to deepen and illuminate much that was only eluded to in the book.
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Fan art and promotion for Joey Ellis's wonderful world of Leaky Timbers, coinciding with his release of the Leaky Timbers pitch video. Here's to hoping it gets picked up by some major TV/internet company! I had a lot of fun ripping off some other greatest American Illustrators of all time, Norman Rockwell and N.C. Wyeth and mashing my style with Joey's characters for these illustrations.
Editorial Illustration for a horror story involving the endless and unsortable paper filing system. Switch to the leader in School Administration Software: Frontline Education.
An early attempt at sequential storytelling, exploring the nuances of human existence through the fiction of horse people.
This is a personal comic, an internal dialogue about where I was as a children’s book illustrator and where I wanted to be as a cartoonist.
It was a self-medicating process that helped me work out a very small comic. It was also a genuine attempt to work for Mike Mignola and Dark Horse comics on one of their projects, or potentially my own, which didn’t happen at the time but definitely put me on some important radars. The biggest result being a very nice article by Cory Godbey over on Muddy Colors, HERE.
The real, lasting benefit was to just write and complete a whole comic story, no matter how short. Hope you enjoy! Lettered by the exceptional Clem Robins.
Sentimental dad move has me drawing my son’s favorite thing ever, tractors. Trak-ahs as he calls them. I’ve never actually wanted to draw one of these things, but the more we looked at them together the more I saw something worth drawing.
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Series of bookmarks for self-promotion, particularly at SCBWI conferences and other book related conventions.
Fan art for one of my favorite comics and comic creators working today. Andrew Maclean's Head Lopper comic is great. Wonderful stories and killer character designs. Also some John Bauer homage being paid here.
Coffee strong enough to wake the dead.
I had the extremely great pleasure of working on this series of posters for the Children's Theatre of Charlotte. Growing up I can remember multiple class field trips to see some of these classic theatre shows, A Year With Frog and Toad specifically. Hope these only add to the wonderful experience kids will have at the theatre in Charlotte.
The Bman has always been my favorite super. The first comic I ever remember owning was the trade paperback of Year One by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli. This, along with Batman the Animated Series, was a great foundation not only for love of a character but love of solid design in illustration. Many artists over the years have added to this tradition, Mike Mignola and Paul Pope not the least of which.
Put your armor on, this stuff is hot.
A fun little fake brand for a friends website, intended to feature government bills in a readable, user-friendly format.
Images inspired by the music of Lullatone. I don't often find music that fits just perfectly with children's book illustration so when I do I'm incredibly inspired to make.
Partnering with the Lamp Post Guild has been one of my most stretching ventures in 2016. Set to open January of 2017, my first course, How to Work from Home (like a Boss) explores the topic of managing yourself, your time, and your home office. Here are some of the illustrations I made to accompany the course banners, covers, and articles.
