Showing posts with label children's books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label children's books. Show all posts
Thursday 6 March 2014
Happy World Book Day!
It's World Book Day!
Friday 28 February 2014
Werewolves, killer tomatoes & mummies...
A werewolf trying to find a job, a sad tomato & a mummy wrapped in pink toilet paper from 'Making Monsters Happy' by Susan Gates.
Labels:
children's books,
children's illustration,
horror,
illustration,
killer tomato,
monsters,
mummy,
sheep,
steve may,
tomato,
treetops
Thursday 6 February 2014
Diary of Dennis the Menace - available now!
Some time in early May last year I was contacted by my agent to say that Puffin were looking for someone to give a 'new illustrative approach' to Dennis the Menace for a series of books written by award winning children's author of 'The Wrong Pong' Steven Butler.
I paused from sipping a large gold flecked martini on my yacht, waved away a palm frond bearing serving girl & thought '...hmmm, draw one of my childhood heroes...HELL YEAH!'
*montage of furious scribbling, various life events, getting an invite to the Beano 75th birthday party, uplifting music etc.*
...& so, the first book, The Diary Of Dennis The Menace is published today, it's very funny, keeping the right level of mischief & chaos (you bumfaces you!) nicely designed by Mandy Norman, & the pictures ain't too shabby either.
Has been an extremely enjoyable job, I dearly wish my mum was still around so I could proudly present her with a copy.
Here's a few of the pictures (I got to draw a few other old favourites too! : )
(Puffin Books, TM © DC Thomson & Co. Ltd.)
I paused from sipping a large gold flecked martini on my yacht, waved away a palm frond bearing serving girl & thought '...hmmm, draw one of my childhood heroes...HELL YEAH!'
*montage of furious scribbling, various life events, getting an invite to the Beano 75th birthday party, uplifting music etc.*
...& so, the first book, The Diary Of Dennis The Menace is published today, it's very funny, keeping the right level of mischief & chaos (you bumfaces you!) nicely designed by Mandy Norman, & the pictures ain't too shabby either.
Has been an extremely enjoyable job, I dearly wish my mum was still around so I could proudly present her with a copy.
Here's a few of the pictures (I got to draw a few other old favourites too! : )
(Puffin Books, TM © DC Thomson & Co. Ltd.)
Thursday 30 January 2014
I've just received my copies of Diary Of Dennis the Menace!
Very excited to have just received my copies of The Diary of Dennis The Menace written by the very funny Steven Butler , drawn by me & published by Puffin books. They look superb, congrats to Mandy Norman for a lovely design job - it's published on 6th February so I shouldn't really give you a peek but I'm very excited...this is how I feel... DING! DONG!* : )
*If you're a fan club member you'll KNOW what this means!
Friday 10 January 2014
Diary of Dennis the Menace...coming very soon!
The Diary of Dennis the Menace is out on the 6th February published by Puffin books - the very clever Steven Butler (@sbutlerbooks) done the writing stuff & I done all the pictures - save up your pocket money kids!
Wednesday 4 December 2013
Diary of Dennis the Menace in The Bookseller
Fame at last!* Article in The Bookseller about Diary of Dennis the Menace by Stephen Butler, & illustrated by me - out in February!
(* not strictly true, I won a tenner for a drawing of Judge Dredd in the 1982 Judge Dredd annual too & I've been on the telly!)
(* not strictly true, I won a tenner for a drawing of Judge Dredd in the 1982 Judge Dredd annual too & I've been on the telly!)
Wednesday 11 September 2013
The Diary of Dennis the Menace
Very excited to say that I've been let loose & allowed to get messy with one of my favourite comic characters! I've been extremely thrilled to be illustrating the covers & insides of this new series of Dennis the Menace books written by the very charming Steven Butler - here's the first cover.
Very pleased to announce that Dennis is at his menacing softy-baiting best!
You can pre-order a copy here or else go & buy it from a PROPER bookshop which is a far more edifying & enjoyable experience, you might meet somebody nice or find another book that you'd have never seen otherwise!
Very pleased to announce that Dennis is at his menacing softy-baiting best!
You can pre-order a copy here or else go & buy it from a PROPER bookshop which is a far more edifying & enjoyable experience, you might meet somebody nice or find another book that you'd have never seen otherwise!
Friday 9 August 2013
Astronauts!
Labels:
aliens,
animals,
astronaut,
cat,
cheese,
children's books,
children's illustration,
elephant,
moon,
mouse,
Rabbit,
space,
space suit
Thursday 17 January 2013
Zombies - before & after
It's always nice to get the final copy of a book sent through!
It suddenly inspired me to look at the stages this cover went through from my (rather maximalist) original rough (top) to my final artwork (less zombies, less superheroes) to the final book where the (decidedly more minimalist) zombies seem to have acquired a rather fetching shade of green!
WHAM-BAM-JELLY-AND-JAM! - Cartoon Kid - ZOMBIES!
I just received my copy of the new Jeremy Strong Cartoon Kid book - Cartoon Kid Zombies!
It's got falling trousers, dancing hippos, talking cakes, police elephants (naturally!) toilet paper mummies & lots of other zombie based shenanigans that Casper & his superhero friends encounter - what more do you need?
It's been a lot of hard work & a lot of fun working on these books & this looks like this will be the last in the series which is a shame (especially as I can draw some of the characters in my sleep by now!) & I've grown quite fond of them.
WHAM-BAM-JELLY-AND-JAM! Anybody can be a superhero! (as long as you stick your pants on the outside, I ALWAYS do!)
You can buy a copy from here but I'd suggest getting one from your local PROPER bookshop - who knows what else you might find?
Saturday 10 November 2012
Thursday 13 September 2012
Vikings!
Friday 24 August 2012
Tuesday 7 August 2012
Cartoon Kid book 4 - Emergency!
Jungle whales |
Tiger / kangaroo cake fight |
Cow wars! |
Disgruntled fairies |
Hungry chameleons! |
School catering... |
The new Cartoon Kid book by Jeremy Strong which I illustrated has just been published by Puffin. You get pictures of vampires, cows, fairies, unlikely whales, arguing tigers & kangaroos & more! How can you resist?
I'd humbly suggest you employ shanks' pony & purchase it from your local independent bookshop or else be a lazy a*** & get it off the interweb
Labels:
Cartoon Kid,
children's books,
children's illustration,
cow,
fairies,
Jeremy Strong,
jungle,
kangaroo,
publishing,
Puffin,
steve may,
tigers,
vampires,
whale
Friday 3 August 2012
Gold medals for Story Lab!
We got there first with the old gold medal malarkey with the kids (& cat) in Story Lab for the Summer Reading Challenge! Yay!
Tuesday 31 July 2012
Olympic facts #1
At
the 1900 Paris Olympics they used live pigeons for the shooting event. 300 birds were
released and Leon de Lunden won gold when he shot 21 of them.
(surely London 2012 definitely missed a trick here - certainly give old Nelson a break?)
(from Fitter, Faster, Funnier Olympics: Everything You Wanted to Know About The Olympics But Were Too Afraid to Ask - by Micheal Cox, A & C Black Publishers Ltd)
(surely London 2012 definitely missed a trick here - certainly give old Nelson a break?)
(from Fitter, Faster, Funnier Olympics: Everything You Wanted to Know About The Olympics But Were Too Afraid to Ask - by Micheal Cox, A & C Black Publishers Ltd)
Monday 30 July 2012
KAPOW! FREE Superheroes in Newham!
Get your capes on! If you're a Newham resident you get FREE entrance to the Discover Children's Story Centre until Sunday 12 August - including the Superheroes exhibition I illustrated & designed for! How good is that?
Tuesday 24 July 2012
The Summer Reading Challenge - Story Lab
Here's some more of the Story Lab artwork I produced for the Reading Agency's Summer Reading Challenge which launched across UK children's libraries on July 14th 2012 - (click to enlarge as usual - there's lots of little details on this one!)
Monday 16 July 2012
The Summer Reading Challenge
I spent a couple of months at the beginning of the year creating all the characters & scenarios for print and online illustrations and animations for this year’s Summer Reading Challenge – STORY LAB – for The Reading Agency, whose aim is to to get kids reading books.
The Campaign, launched on 14th July has wide press and TV coverage and is featured in UK libraries this summer encouraging kids to read 6 books over the summer holidays.
Here's a few pieces from the campaign
Tuesday 3 July 2012
Cartoon Kid is July's poster boy!
I'm July's poster boy for my agent Arena Illustration's calendar - illustration was commissioned by The Times for their Campaign For Fun which searches for the most fun school in Britain*. It features characters from Cartoon Kid, the series by Jeremy Strong,
published by Puffin Books which I'm about to begin illustrating the 5th in the series - yay!
* It definitely wasn't the one I went to.
* It definitely wasn't the one I went to.
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