The Verge

A prequel to the previous post.

Holy ghosts! That's a lot of ghosts!

"What is this noise," you ask?  I just finished drawing up a bunch of ghosts for a combination flip-book, called 10,000 Ghost Stories, to be published shortly.  I had pretty much free reign to think up 23 iterations of demons and dead things to connect at the neck and waist, which was a real pleasure to spend time on.  In the end, you can make about as many as, you guessed it: 10,000 unique ghosts!  The above is just one example.  Below are the 3 in their un-spliced forms.

Holiday Gloom!

The Art Director at SCOPE Magazine always asks me to take the darker angle on the stories I get assigned, which is great.  So here, miserable Marley and the Ghost of Christmas Future.

just in time.

Phew! This painting sat in a corner unfinished and mocking me for two years before I was challenged by a friend to finish it in under a week.  I won't get into what the consequences for not meeting the deadline would have been; suffice it to say, DIRE.

Eva Ibbotson covers

Three soon-to-be reprinted covers for Penguin/Dutton Children's Books:

BOO!

Ghosts.  An interior illustration for Eva Ibbotson's "Ogre of Oglefort," due out August 18th, from Penguin. (pre-order!)