“Work/Life is a book celebrating Canadian illustration and photography. Unlike magazine awards annuals or traditional illustration directories that are little more than picture books, our publication delves into what fuels a creative life. 

Participants were interviewed about their creative focus and artistic technique as well as their inspirations and aspirations. Sketchbook pages, studio shots, inspirational [...]

Danny Gregory’s new book An Illustrated Life features pages from artist’s journals and sketchbooks, a secret glimpse into their thoughts and inspirations. He posted a preview gallery a few months ago and you can imagine my joy when I discovered three of our bloggers, Penelope, Rama and Melanie listed among the distinguished participants, as well [...]

Renee French’s characters live in strange worlds, the stories they act out somehow both comforting and dismaying

super artist, christophe blain, will be at secret headquarters this friday, april 26th at 7, for a book signing. even if you can’t make it to the best comic store ever to meet the artist, you owe it to yourself to check out his work.

You can view the entire Charley Harper An Illustrated Life book  online here. That’s over 400 pages of beautiful illustrations!

Woody Guthrie spent a traveling life all over America, writing and singing songs. Songs for millworkers and children and even songs for U.S. Government projects. Woody’s music is a legend, but his rambling life had him plying a lot of trades, and it was with a paintbrush - he’d hocked his guitar - that he [...]

I’ve been eyeballing this book, The Artist Within, for several months. It is a collection of photographs of animators and comic book artists in their studios. I didn’t know if it would be ho-hum or super-awesome but I found a copy at the library yesterday. It is dynamite. Short biographies proceed each photograph and the [...]

Danny Gregory’s next book is about artists and their journals. An Illustrated Life explores the sketchbooks of legends (like R. Crumb and Chris Ware) and peons (like me). It won’t come out until this Fall but, until then, Danny is conducting short weekly interviews with the book’s contributors. You can subscribe via iTunes or listen [...]