Posts under ‘826’

A day without a pirate…

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 [...]

Rad Hair Day 01: Name Tag

This is the first in what might be an ongoing autobiographical cartoon and personal writing project. I had always joked that when they make the story of my life, “Rad Hair Day: The Life and Times of a Professional Hair Model” would be an awesome name. Of course Tom Cruise would play the lead. Click [...]

The Purple Coconut, 826 illustrations

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 [...]

Designer Eye Patches

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 [...]

Swords for Teef

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 [...]