13/28: The Smiley-Face Book
This is the only book i’ve published that i illustrated myself because that’s all i can draw—smiley faces.
https://bookshop.org/a/101674/9780989309288
This is the only book i’ve published that i illustrated myself because that’s all i can draw—smiley faces.
https://bookshop.org/a/101674/9780989309288
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In 2017 there was a white-supremacist who got sucker-punched on live TV and Patton Oswalt started tweeting some hilarious tweets about always punching nazis. I took that and ran with it, writing a short little rhyming book about nazi-punching.
My friends Kara & Ryan, Josh & Meadow, and Nikki & Robbie all had their first kids in the year before i wrote this; Emmaline, Sky, and Ryder. Two of these three couples are farmers and i got the idea to write a book about kids on a farm.
https://bookshop.org/a/101674/9781732459434
Part three of the Stinkalope Tex quadrilogy, where he heads out into a snowstorm by dogsled to rescue a downed plane.
Completing the Stinkalope Tex “seasons” quadrilogy. I had the idea for the title of this book way back when i was finishing up the first Stinkalope Tex book, but it took a bunch of years until i wrote it. It's got a lot of poop in it.
Ben Hatke is an author of books and graphic novels who i very much admire. In early September of 2019, his four-and-a-half year old daughter was killed in a horse-related accident. This tore me up, but i got the idea of a story about a little girl who stops growing up.
My dog Bulo got into the chicken coop at my friends’ farm and killed 44 of the 48 chicks in it. One of the four survivors was the only brown chicken. This horrible gory story about a chicken surviving being killed over and over came out of my head.