Invasive Species

I was approached by the good people of The Encyclopedia Show to do the cover for their "Invasive Species" themed program. I was told to choose between creeping jenny and Chinese mitten crabs. But why choose? I made one from the other. And I thought it might make a nice desktop wallpaper, so if you click on the picture above it will take you to the 1280x960 wallpaper ready version.

Happy creeping.

Demons in Spring, in August

This isn't coming out until August, but I wanted to be sure to give advance warning that people should be on the lookout for Joe Meno's upcoming book, Demons in the Spring , for which I provided a couple illustrations (two permutations of one those illustrations are above). Those illustrations will join the (undoubtedly superior) work of Charles Burns, Archer Prewitt, Ivan Brunetti, Jay Ryan, Anders Nilsen, and kozyndan, among others.

With that cast of talent and weighing in at three hundred hardbound pages, it's sure to be an impressive book. But all that aside, the book benefits 826 Chicago, a non-profit writing and tutoring center, so come August, buy five copies... even if you hate everyone in the book. And then go get some anger management therapy, because you hate some of the nicer people on the planet. It's really time to take a look in the mirror, isn't it? Yes. Yes, it is.