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Here is a comic I illustrated for a recent 826 Valencia field trip:

For the next week, $2 of every album that I sell will be donated to the marvelous 826 National. 826, a nonprofit founded by Dave Eggers and his McSweeney’s cronies, is dedicated to teaching creative writing, screenwriting, publishing, ESL, and numerous other classes to students. I have been volunteering at the 826 Valencia (also known [...]

Tonight I gave a yo-yo presentation at Quickies, a fundraiser for 826 put on by Ideo. It was a blast to see Ideo’s killer office space in Pier 28, and to perform a twist on my normal act (tweaking it slightly to fit a tech-ier crowd). My presentation was around 9pm, and I went on [...]

Here is a quick sketch I made to warm up before drawing The Three Jungle Friends story at 826 last week. I like to loosen up before the kids get there, because once they start writing their book I have to move fast.
This shot also gives you a sense of scale of the art that [...]

A few days ago, I did some volunteer work for 826 Valencia. A class of 20 third grade students came and, with the help of some 826 staff, created a story called The Three Jungle Friends Learn To Swim. I called my friend Mike and he came along to create some artwork for the book. [...]

I spent most of the day at 826 Valencia yesterday, having a good time and getting stuff done. In the morning I illustrated a children’s story involving rocketships, martians, and a 100 foot giant super computer with spikes named Gina. (Yes I did remember to take my name tag off.)

I came back to 826 later [...]

Here are some illustrations from today’s volunteer storytelling at 826 Valencia. The kids where from Nueva Elementary School and the story was about a cow and a penguin searching for the mystical purple coconut. In order to find it and the evil water bottle pirates that gaurd some great treasure, the pair have to travel [...]

I’m helping out with a pirate craft fair thing at 826 Valencia. I’m getting a bunch of local designers together to work on customizing pirate eye patches for it, so I put together my very first instructable on how to re-make an eye patch using ties or whatever other scrap you have lying around.
Read it [...]

Sunday, February 26, 2006
Here are two quick sketches I did today.
Swords for teeth is based on something some kids created while I was illustrating a story at 826 Valencia. It was about an arachnophobic spider with a pet alligator with swords for teeth.
The Monies sketch is just some weird thing.
These both took a few [...]

Volunteering at 826 Valencia
Wednesday, July 13, 2005
I think I’ve posted about this before but I sometimes volunteer at 826 Valencia, also known as “the pirate supply store” or “that McSweeney’s thing”. It’s a non-profit that focuses on teaching creative writing. They have all sort of different workshops, I help out with one that they call [...]