Spiders!

Saint Felix being hidden by spiders, from Roman soldiers, is the story that would have appealed to me most as a child. I was fascinated by everything about ancient Rome, and enthralled by the bravery of persecuted Christians (especially those being thrown to the lions). Add to that, spiders and spiderwebs are just cool. And spiders take on good, bad, and even god-like forms in legends from around the world. To read some interesting spider tales-- including how they were part of a Christmas miracle-- check out this website: http://www.spiderzrule.com/legends.htm

Galley Proofs

I'm working on the galley proofs of Holy Croc. Even though it's all low resolution, it's fun to see how the images align with the text. I especially love the typeface that the designer chose to use for the titles. It's as if the words have been chewed on by a friendly crocodile! This image is a screen-cap of my computer desktop, so you can see see some of the smaller thumbnails of stories off to the side. A few of my stories have to be shortened up a wee bit, to fit around the pictures. Otherwise, it's all looking good!

More fun with art!

When I was scanning my artwork (for my records, not the publisher), I had to stitch together two scans because my scanner bed was too small to do the whole image at once. In the process of playing around with the scans I discovered I could turn them into cool little distorted panoramic movies. I could hold my cursor over them and they would spin over the connected pages. Unfortunately, despite them being in Quicktime format, they don't want to load on this site. I think they are so much fun that I will be posting screen caps from them from time to time. 

The white space you'll see in the drawings is where the text goes. Above is an example of the distorted panoramic image. And below you can see what the original drawing really looks like. This is St. Felix who is being hidden from Roman soldiers by spiders. The distorted one may be way cooler now but, once the text is added, the image down below is going to rock too.