The Dog Days of Summer

HelenStephens.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_Days

More dog days

(here too)

dreams of flying

thank you to Dora B.

cover by David Frankland

Now let us praise famous jacket artists – 2010

Keith Haring

http://www.haringkids.com/

Affordable and Free Artist Portfolio Sites

Vintage Kids' Books My Kid Loves:

The Fabulous Firework Family

75 Years of Penguin Books

Joel Stewart

Arrrrrrrgh! from Meg Hunt on Vimeo.

Otto Steininger

Carbon Footprint from Otto Steininger on Vimeo.

Jay Kennedy Scholarship

http://www.cartoonistfoundation.org/jay-kennedy-scholarship.html

Learn about Jay Kennedy here

Poster by John Martz

Margaret Chamberlain

Vintage Kids' Books My Kid Loves:

The Mouse and the Lion

Neatorama's Art Blog

See a sample page and get a sneak peek of Escape From The Museum (‘Look! A Book!’ 2011, Little Brown)

LASZLITO KOVACS

There's cake in the conference room

(Thanks to Nate Williams!)

Browse Inside the Book

previews at drawn&quarterly

Open Library

One Web Page for Every Book

The Sketchbook Project

"Thousands of sketchbooks will be exhibited at galleries and museums as they make their way on tour across the country.

After the tour, all sketchbooks will enter into the permanent collection of The Brooklyn Art Library, where they will be barcoded and available for the public to view.

Anyone - from anywhere in the world - can be a part of the project..."

(from May 2008)

Shiraz Fuman - illustrator

Julie Colombet

More from Lane Smith right here

Three Little Words

Dueling Banjo Pigs!

A new management team is aggressively trying to transform the Archie family of characters into global brands in comics, film and apparel.

How they do it

Here's how the Tiny Inventions team made the short film Something Left, Something Taken (PG13)

And here's the entire movie:

Something Left, Something Taken- Full Version from Tiny Inventions on Vimeo.

Texas schools ban author

for book he didn't even write

Pop!

POP!
The Invention of Bubble Gum.
Written and illustrated by Meghan McCarthy.
Paula Wiseman/Simon & Schuster. $15.99. (Ages 4 to 8)

(The Blue Rose Girls own this Sunday's Book Review)

Maja Veselinović

.com/shop

Nucleus Gallery

gallerynucleus.com

thank you to Brittney Lee

50 Best Illustration Blogs on the Web (thank you to #37 )

Notes on Twitter

Each Twitter post seemed a tacit referendum on who I am...The grocery-store episode telegraphed that I was tuned in to the Seinfeldian absurdities of life; my concern about women’s victimization, however sincere, signaled that I also have a soul.

Turn your speakers down...

Dan Santat and Mac Barnett invited illustrators to draw their own visions of "Oh NO"! (Or How My Science Project Destroyed the World) to help raise funds for 826 LA . More information on the project and auction schedule here!

Thank you to Julia Denos.

Heidi Younger

http://www.heidiyounger.com/

Harriet Russell

.co.uk

Andrew Bannecker

.com & shop

The Shape Game

Play the shape game with Anthony Browne

The original shape and, right, Quentin Blake's interpretation which one lucky reader will win a signed and strictly one-off print of.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2010/jul/25/childrens-laureate-art

All money raised will go to the Rainbow Trust (rainbowtrust.org.uk)

Thank you to Tor Freeman!

Luke Séguin-Magee

http://www.lukemagee.com/blog/hello/ --Thanks Luke!