Norm's in a book!

Check it out (page 9 if you scavenger hunt your way through the preview pages on Blurb)

It is published by Trunkt! and will be sold on-line and in coffee shops & independent bookstores in NY.

Woo-hoo!

Ok, I will take pity on you - here is the link directly to the preview of the book - but you are going to have to scroll down to page 9 by yourself.

so I'm slackin' a little bit...

But I have a good excuse. I've been working on an ABC book for about a year now. I painted 26 pictures for the book, scanned them, photographed them, had them printed into a book format, photoshopped them because the book looked awful, tried another printer, re-photoshopped them, and then gave up. Then, in at 3am one day, I awoke with the brilliant idea of converting all the paintings to linoleum block prints. So, I practiced cutting a few blocks, started drawing the pictures, practiced cutting some more blocks, tried different ways to transfer the pictures, found a way that worked, so I scanned the drawings and started transferring then cutting the 26 blocks. I have 19 blocks in the works currently (the art store didn't have 26 in stock, so I have to go back). But low and behold version 2.0 of the blocks works! So far I'm happy with the format. So happy in fact that I am a willing to share them with you. Here is "I is for Icecream" and "H is for Houses" - I'll let you figure out which is which.

NorM?

I think this is too funny. Being both a huge Agatha Christie fan and being "Norm" - a friend picked this up for me at a garage sale. I can see a whole "Norm" collection starting...

Ok, and one confession - this isn't the exact cover that I received. The story takes place in WWII Europe and revolves around Tommy & Tuppence chasing a couple of German spies. Let's just say I like this cover better. There's a different cover pictured in my FLICKR account.