Now Billy Can Concentrate
FEBRUARY 7, 2011

I was fortunate enough to have had four pieces selected for inclusion in the Society of Illustrators annual exhibition Illustrators 53.
The piece above, Now Billy can concentrate, won a gold medal.
I got to express my thanks at the awards gala last friday night in New York, but let me say it again here - thank you. It's a huge honor and I'm very grateful.
The editorial and book show will be on display til mid february, and I urge you to see it if you can - it's not often you get to see so much amazing work in one place.
The piece above, Now Billy can concentrate, won a gold medal.
I got to express my thanks at the awards gala last friday night in New York, but let me say it again here - thank you. It's a huge honor and I'm very grateful.
The editorial and book show will be on display til mid february, and I urge you to see it if you can - it's not often you get to see so much amazing work in one place.

All four illustrations were from my book, In and Out with Dick and Jane, A Loving Parody, written with James Victore, and due out this April first, from Abrams Image.
It's a simple book, which tells a timeless tale of children and their world. A beautiful, sunny joyful world filled with foreclosures, gun culture, school shootings, abuse by priests, serial killer clowns, meth labs, racism, the Times Square bomber, big box stores, credit card debt, sex education, ADHD drugs, poor school nutrition, soccer dads, bestiality, latch key kids, Viagra, obesity, litter, pollution - in other words, a world much like our own.
It's a simple book, which tells a timeless tale of children and their world. A beautiful, sunny joyful world filled with foreclosures, gun culture, school shootings, abuse by priests, serial killer clowns, meth labs, racism, the Times Square bomber, big box stores, credit card debt, sex education, ADHD drugs, poor school nutrition, soccer dads, bestiality, latch key kids, Viagra, obesity, litter, pollution - in other words, a world much like our own.


As I said, the books will be arriving on our shores April first. Godspeed, little Hong Kong container ship!
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