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

No sneak peaks - I’ll keep you updated.

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 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