Free Comic Book Day!

Friends: I have some great news! I know how bummed you've been about this weekend. It's been such a tough week and you've been losing sleep thinking about how you could possibly make up for the week's terrors, but I have just the thing...

SNAKE OIL! It'll cure what ails you and send your rheumatism down the drain!

Also: I'll be drawing pictures and selling things at Dragon's Keep this Saturday at 10am as part of Free Comic Book Day! More info here.

Help Make A Book! Part II

There are just 6 short days left to make "A Map in the Dirt" into a beautifully printed book!

Now is the time to tell all your friends about the sweet rewards: sketchbooks, original artwork, the book, the giant coloring poster, music, and the new personalized 24x36" poster filled with drawings of you and your friends or whatever you want!

http://kck.st/bH6PPT

Odes to Animals

I've just finished up a short series of five portraits, this time the subject is animals. The portraits are odes to some of my wild friends, including: Brown Bear, Sparrow, White Tailed Deer, Fox and Jack Rabbit. I've surrounded them with some of their own loves as well as some of my own.

My friend was leaving his house the other day to go feed birds in the park. "I love animals!" He smiled. He pointed to his shirt, which was teeming with bears and trees and wildlife. "See?!" He gave me his 10 pound sack of bird seed and said, "You know what you can tell about a person that loves animals?" He paused and I tried to understand the question. "...They love people even more." He gave me a hug and we went our separate ways.

Animals have a soft and mysterious place in my heart. They seem to know something we don't and we've been given the unique responsibility of caring for them and sharing this world with them. These portraits are my small attempt to capture their majesty and mystery.

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I'll be turning one of my five portraits into a beautiful letterpress print. Please vote for your favorite here.

Interview

Tonight I'm being interviewed by Dungeon Crawlers Radio! I'm really nervous and am not sure if I should make up a fake voice to use on the radio or my own, regular plain-old-Jess voice...

I dare you to call in and ask questions!