pour moi

FINALLY, I’m finished my first children’s picture book!! The cover was the last thing to do, and it left my studio a couple of days ago.

Published by Henry Holt, it will be out in the spring of 2008. Very exciting.

No sneak peaks - I’ll keep you updated.

This is where I’ll be heading next Saturday! Don’t miss it…

Edel Rodriguez and Jon Krause at the Lonsdale Gallery

It’s just over a month now that the ICON5 conference has come and gone. Being on the board was quite an experience and one that I will never forget. Having the opportunity to work closely with my peers and to be able to meet so many of my heroes made it all worthwhile.

Martha, Fernanda and me

Highlights:

• Getting to know everyone on the board…
• Nancy Stahl! I wish you lived in Toronto.
• Running around Brooklyn and Manhattan with my pal and Co-Chair of Events Fernanda Cohen.
• Ross MacDonald.
• Martha Rich, she kicks ass.
• Isabelle Dervaux = Superwoman.
• Mark Heflin, I have never met anyone so positive.
• Our amazing volunteers.
• Embarrassed myself by emitting a seal-like bark when I met Katherine Streeter.
• The barbeque at Sean Qualls and Selina Alko’s place.
• Meeting the fellas from the Half-Tones; Barry Blitt, Joe Ciardiello, Robert Saunders, James Steinberg and Michael Sloan.
• Lauren Simkin Berke,Nora Krug, Steven Guarnaccia, Warren Linn, Jean Tuttle, Thorina Rose…
• The parties at the New York Times, the Jonathan Levine gallery…
• The realization that Robert Zimmerman rocks the casbah (he’s a real firecracker) - and that man can dance.
• Dinners after 10pm with Martha Rich, Julie Murphy, Jude Buffum, Peter Brown, Gina + Matt, Chrystal Falcioni, Edel Rodriguez, Paul Dallas, Marcos Chin, Mark Heflin and countless others…
• Meeting and making so many new illustrator friends that I really couldn’t write them all here. Running around with my best pal Sandra Dionisi at the final party, where I danced off the stress of the whole thing… It was a great night, it was a great few days!

Good-bye ICON5!

The ICON5 conference is over and I’m still accepting submissions for this collaborative project. If you’re an illustrator and would like to participate, contact me for information. The cover has been beautifully hand-bound by book artist Don Taylor, the Stonehenge paper generously donated by Legion Paper.

The first exhibition will be in September 2008 at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Here is a small sampling of the book and what’s between the covers:

Cover

Interior of book, image by Sandra Dionisi

Ingo Fast

Marco Cibola

Thom Sevalrud

Warren Linn