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I know it was just pretend, but my life flashed before my eyes.

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I'm signing these Twin Peaks prints and getting them all to you very soon! Prepare your walls!

I know I only made it into the board because the scores were reset, but it still #feelsgoodman

"In the Warmth of the Great Northern" complete and ready for print release this Wednesday. TheScottCShop.com

Finishing touches, you guys. It shall be posted tomorrow. #GreatNorthern

BROBOT BEDTIME is out today!! Written by @sudiptabq pictures by me! From @abramskids

Alright. I'm getting ready to paint this thing here. #TheGreatNorthern

Dinner at the Holdens’. Whatever the entree is, puns are always the side.

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10 chocolate frogs for Gryffindor!

Just in time for the 25th anniversary of the duo's first appearance on MTV…

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Oh, boy, do I have an announcement for all of you!  It’s a NEW BOOK!  Adam Rex and I have teamed up to bring you a story of love and letters!  Oxen and Gazelles!  Suspenders and fancy dresses!!  It is called XO,OX – A Love Story and it is out in stores right now! Brought to you by Neal Porter Books at Roaring Brook Press!  Go down to your local bookstores and pick it up in your hands!

Remember when we used to write letters telling one another how much we loved or felt annoyed with each other?  This story really taps into that excitement.  You will probably love it.

Adam and I will be celebrating the release with a solo exhibition of the book’s artwork at Gallery Nucleus on Saturday Jan 14th!  Jon Klassen will be celebrating the release of his new book We Found A Hat with an exhibition on the same evening at Gallery Nucleus!  Come hang out with us!

 

XO,OX – A Love Story

January 14 – January 29

OPENING RECEPTION

Saturday, January 14th (6:00pm – 9:00pm)

Free Admission, All Ages Welcome, No RSVP

Los Angeles, CA ​— Artist Scott C and author Adam Rex will both be in the gallery in

celebration of their latest children’s book, XO,OX A Love Story!

○ Original artwork from the book on display

○ Scott will be doing some live drawings! If you are lucky you might get one…

○ Live reading by Adam Rex!

○ Fun XO,OX related activities and free themed refreshments served

 

And if you live in New York, I will be celebrating at Books of Wonder in the beginning of Feburary!  Adam will unfortunately not be in attendance at this one, but perhaps we can have a little picture of him there for you to chat with.

 

And now would you like to see some spreads from the book?  How about some rough workups for the book?

 

Here are some early character designs. I treated these exactly like how I treat designing character for the DOUBLE FINE games! Because it’s nice and clear I think.  Editors and Art Directors and Tim Schafer can choose their favorite letters and numbers…

  

I'm going to be posting a whole bunch of original art for sale on danmart.etsy.com.
Here are the first two to go up:

"STAY! STAAAY!" watercolor & pencil illustration

"Five Animals Looking at a Firefly" watercolor and ink illustration

Well, Dinovember is over now. Here are a few of my favorites:

Spinosaurus could fit an entire party sub in its mouth.

But then Iguanodon showed up with a whole stack of pizzas! Hooray! For such cool, party-saving maneuvers as this, and because of his distinctive thumb-spikes, Iguanodon was known as “The Fonzie Dinosaur.”

Last week, i was one of four authors to speak at the Spring Festival of Children’s Literature in Frostburg, MD. What a wonderful show, you guys!  Thank you to everyone at Frostburg University for hosting me and showing me a splendid time.  I love hanging with teachers and librarians.  They are my favorites.

Here are some memories from the trip!

Frostburg is a charming little mountain town in western Maryland.  We stayed in this old hotel called the Gunter.  It had a jail, a doll room, and a Shirley Temple room inside there.  A strange little place that i liked very much.

 

Here is the auditorium where the talks went down.  All the projects from local classrooms lined the walls and the stage.  it was crazy heartwarming.

 

Look at these amazing Hug Machine projects!!  My heart melted all over the ground.

 

Our guide Carla took us for milkshakes at the same booth where Harry S. Truman had milkshakes way back when.  Brian Floca and Matt Phelan were two of the four speakers that also participated in the festival.  Good dudes.

 

 

On one of the mornings, i spoke to a couple 3rd grade classes at the La Vale Library.   They were great!

 

 

At the end of our time together, they presented me with a little book they all made together about they own Hug MAchine concepts.  I couldn’t believe it.  You can see on my face here, that i could not believe it.

 

 

All in all, it was a wonderful festival.  i came away very inspired by the other speakers and by the energy of the whole festival. So great!

Boys dressed up in school uniforms pose with king penguins at the London Zoo, 1953. Photograph by B. Anthony Stewart and David S. Boyer, National Geographic Creative

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Artwork by J.R.R. Tolkien

At the end of 2014 fall semester, a series of books was sweeping through the students at The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS). The title? Unlovable. Spear-headed through recommendations by Anna Sellheim, the sudden popularity of Unlovable, Vol. 1, urged the Schulz Library to get the other two volumes as well. I was among those caught in the whirlpool of Tammy Pierce.

The books are fiction but are based on a 1989 diary that the creator, Esther Pearl Watson, found in a truck stop bathroom. The comics read as a diary of Tammy’s life. Through the first three volumes (I can only hope there are many more), we follow Tammy through the first semester of her sophomore year of high school (volume 1), winter break and the second semester of her sophomore year (volume 2), and her subsequent summer vacation (volume 3).

The glittery covers of each volume shout that they are set in the 80s. The covers are neon pink, green, and orange. Actual glitter is spewed behind Tammy’s ridiculous but enthusiastic portrait. Tammy shows us how much she seems to be unlovable, but after a romp through the story inside, just as when meeting real people, we see there is so much to pity, admire, love, and root for.

The scratchy artwork perfectly displays the awkward teen years; nothing goes right. Everything and everyone is on edge. Through the narrative, you can quickly switch between cheering on, yelling at, and dissing the ever optimistic Tammy. She is blind to her idiotic friends treating her like garbage, as I am sure so many of us realize looking back at our own high school years. She blindly crushes on and even worships the strangest and sometimes inappropriate “men” in her life. The strange craze of creating shrines is so accurate. I was only in grade school in the 80s, but these love stories drive me back to my friends’ passions with a dizzying force. By the end of volume 2, I was literally pumping my fist, rooting for Tammy and her love interest.

Each book is just over 400 pages. The third volume was recently published in May 2014. The story is serialized in Bust magazine and Fantagraphics is currently selling the three volumes as a bundle, as well as individually.

Another Puzzlemania gag!

I hope everyone had a nice time for Valentine's Day!
Here's a gag I did recently for a Highlights Puzzlemania book.

I just rediscovered this comic that I drew for New Year's 2010 but never posted. Oddly enough, I noticed that people were still wearing these glasses this past New Year's Eve! They made the "1" in "2015" into one of the openings, so it looked like the glasses said "2005." Come on, New-Year's-Eve-novelty-item industry! Can't you see this doesn't make sense any more! Can't you come up with something else! I'm posting this now so you have time to think about it for next year! You can do better than this.

“Legacy media accuses young people of being apathetic while actively attempting to remove them...

I drew this Richard Thompson tribute comic for Team Cul de Sac back in 2011.