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I’ll be taking on another Ni Hao, Kai-lan book for Simon and Schuster starting monday.

This is the cover I did for a new book. Since it’s up for sale on Amazon, it should be OK to show it here now.

This news is a few weeks old, but I finally finished the two Ni Hao, Kai-lan books I had been working on. One was a full color 24 page book based on an upcoming show. The other was a 48 page coloring book based on the same episode.

Then I’ve been putting a lot of time in character design for a new project. Next week, a Dora cover will start as well.

I have done the covers for the two Ni Hao, Kai-lan books. I’m working on interior sketches for one and waiting word to proceed on another. Also just did one comic strip for a new Patent Beast series.

hoo-boy, been a while since i’ve updated the site, so here’s what’s been happening….

been working on colorizing some of the older patent beast strips for some new iterations of Bobs Book. He then asked me to make the graphics he had in the book match the artwork, so i redid all those.

also have started new strips for the patent beast series, and will have those to do over the coming months.

I also got a new Kai-lan project from Random House and just today got a second Kai-lan from Simon and Schuster. So all in all, life and work has been pretty busy. Maybe i can post some pics soon enough.

done with the last book….

and just got another one! a biggie too. Finished up the cover rough sketch yesterday and will be starting work on the rest in january.

Need to finish up a Ni Hao Kai-lan book in the next few days. Been working on this one off and on for quite a while, but it is finally coming to a close.

I’ll hope I can let you all know what the property is soon enough, but for now, the books are done.

I’ll be finishing up another Ni Hao book soon.

…. well, at least one of them… I just finished up a Ni Hao beach day book for Simon and Schuster. I also squeezed in some extra work on a few books tied to the previous project I was working on.. the one I can’t mention yet… and this week I’m finishing a few more pages for books connected with that project. It’s been a busy time, but I thank God for that.

My other Ni Hao project has been pushed back for a few more weeks.

Also picked up a second Ni Hao book… this time from Random House. This will be a 16 page full color paper doll book with stickers.

Be working on this over the summer.