π¨ New book alert! π¨
Hereβs a fun new board book launching into the world next month. I mean, it has googly eyesβ¦
In the book, we follow a grumpy cat (fortunately I have a life model) who encounters a series of mysterious visitors to his door, offering up some pretty world-class knock-knock jokes. Each visitor hangs around in the next spread as the chaos continues.
I started working on this one last summer with Magic Cat, who are the same clever ladies who gave me a shot when I brought them a scrappy manuscript for The Cave in 2015.
I was lured in by the idea of these googly eyes, but the design of this was a real challenge in the beginning, like how do we design a book that has two circles cut out on every page? Or how do you do all these different characters but keep the eyes in the same place? BUT! We rose to the challenge (thank you Steph!), and I think this book has turned into a really handsome little thing. Look at that cat?!
It is available to pre-order *HERE* if you so wish, and it releases on March 16th.
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I also wanted to share this fun jigsaw puzzle I worked on with Mudpuppy that just came out. I work on lots of fun projects with these guys, but this one I thought came out especially rad. Itβs a big space station on Mars populated by different animals. I definitely leaned into some Richard Scarry energy for this one.
Over and out for now!
Heading to Mexico City next month, so maybe no newsletter until after then, but if you have any places to visit that I can add to my (already massive) list, I would love to hear them!