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Ten Signs You Might Be on the Artism Spectrum
No, I didn’t spell “autism” wrong. I’m talking about artism. If you relate to any of this list, you are most likely on the artistic spectrum. Ten Signs You Might Be Artistic: You make art. Or you write, or you do music, or you act, or you see your life is some sort of strange… Read more »
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Found sketch of a Victorian Milk Cafe
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Irrational Fears
What’s your irrational fear? This is mine.
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How Wisconsin Became the Dairy State
This one is for Valette.
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Mythical Suspence
I read and reread the past four Tufa books very carefully, looking for things that would create beautiful scenes in a coloring book. (I drew The Tufa Coloring Book.) So, I was relieved recently to crack open Alex Bledsoe’s latest book, Gather Her Round, and just, you know. Read it. Having read the previous four… Read more »
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The Music of Childhood
Zanimal and I always listen to The Decemberist’s album The King is Dead in the car, when I’m chauffeuring her around, as parents do these days. We hypothesize that Avery is a cat. I think someday, she will hear the Decemberists and be brought magically back to her childhood drives with me. This is the… Read more »
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Inspired by Oleanna Cunneen, I created a border
In researching the history of Mount Horeb for the troll coloring book, I learned about this woman Oleanna Cunneen. She was of Norwegian descent, and she did a lot of art in a very traditional, Norwegian style. She was the first troll creator in Mount Horeb. Her trolls were about a foot high, usually, and… Read more »
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No, I Have Underwear
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Improvements
I have some ideas I’d like to run by you, about improving War and Peace: The Prince should be a vampire. We should add Jonathan Strange, this book needs a magician! All of the men should be women. All of the women should still be women. All of the swords should be cats. This way,… Read more »
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I resemble that person-
I went to have lunch with my daughter at school, and as I was signing in, the secretary said, “Oh, great article on you!” “What?” “In the newspaper.” So, I dropped by the gas station and picked up a copy, and FRONT PAGE! THAT’S ME! I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, The Town of… Read more »