Come by and say hi!

Thank you, Greg!

It was at a tire shop so I guess it's roaming around somewhere.

For all you Jim Woodring fans out there. A select few initiates will recognize this ancient cryptic symbol. Spotted in Tacoma near my hood.

#jimwoodring

Man, those are great comic book covers!

Cover reveal, Wally Mammoth: The Sled Race! Written by Corey Tabor and moi. Corey is a natural wordsmith with picture books!
This is a stack of color proofs and now it's at the printer. Mark your calendar for September 25!

#kidlit #kidlitart #picturebook #illustration #kidlitillustrator

As a child, I was obsessed with the book Faeries by Brian Froud & Alan Lee. My mom wouldn't buy the book for me (the book just came out & I was 6 years old). Every time we would visit the local bookstore, I'd run to grab the book & read it. I loved the leprechaun hats!
Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Close-up image of a picture book color proof that with text saying "pictures by Dalton Webb."

Getting excited about my picture book illustrator debut! I just received color proofs for a picture book written by Corey Tabor and illustrated by moi. Sorry for the tease, but more info coming soon!

#kidlit #kidlitart #picturebook #picturebookartist

Musical notation

The based-on is based and bassed.

In college, Laura Ingraham went to a Gay Students meeting. The next day, she published the names of everyone in attendance in the school newspaper, at a time when being outed was dangerous.

So, yeah, appointing a menace to gay people is a GREAT selection to lead our nation's [checks notes] arts.

That's true!

Annapurna is an institution.

I tried to visit as many standing stones I could when my family visited Ireland and the UK last summer. It was balm for the soul. I wish we had standing stones here.

I'm looking for work in #kidlit illustration, btw. If you see this and you want to have a conversation about a project, please don't hesitate to reach out here. #illustration #cartooning #comics #kidlitart

If it walks like a Nazi, talks like a Nazi, and salutes like a Nazi…

Keep the online pressure up, friends. And boycott Tesla.

Find out more about local protests at teslatakedown.com

Interviewer: How do you shut out the reality of the world when you’re creating your books? Do nuclear weapons, cancer, unemployment, and pollution affect you? Sendak: Well, there is no way you can shut out those facts unless you’re insane. Perhaps they permeate the work and color it in some particular way, but there is no magic way you can shut the door on all these things. We don’t work in “airy fairy land” when we’re doing books for children. We are dealing with real life, even though we’re using forms that are nonsensical or funny or bizarre. In fact, real life should be in the book. It has to permeate the work. I live in this world. Seuss: They’re all there, but we look at them through the wrong end of the telescope. We change them in that way.

From Conversations with Maurice, edited by Peter C. Kunze. This is a conversation between Dr. Seuss and Sendak in 1979. Still relevant in 2025.

#kidlit #mauricesendak #drseuss

I'm organizing a comics conference at Rice University starting on March 20! Art Spiegelman will be here. You should be, too! cats.rice.edu

Lasky Comics — Haiku Comics Class, Winter 2025 This is a poetry comics class for winter, focusing on short haiku comics of roughly 3 or 4 panels. Over four Sunday sessions, we'll meet online and look at notable examples of haiku poems, and then le...

As evil billionaires attempt to force the US into becoming a racist-fascist country, maybe you need a little distraction once a week?
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Anyone in need of an editor for their upcoming project? Konner is highly recommended ✅

My why? Making books for children is a radical action, b/c becoming literate is a radical action, b/c self identifying as a reader is a radical action, b/c reading with the explicit goal of gaining self knowledge is a radical action. These are radical actions b/c they literally change the world.

Read. Share. And FIGHT.

Hayao Miyazaki's short guide to watercolor painting -- we put this translation together a couple of years ago

The universe speaks in mysterious ways.

The Dutch anti-Nazi children’s book from the 1940s that depicts Hitler as a bug One of the current listings at the Rare Books dealership Type Punch Matrix is an unusual children’s book from the 1940s: Kriebeltje de Boskabouter (in English: Tickle, the Forest-Gnome). It i…

Get your pencils to paper and fresh ribbons in your typewriters.
#kidlit

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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

When the Patriot Act was passed, libraries got requests for patrons’ borrowing history. We were prohibited from disclosing those requests.

We deleted and shredded those records and stopped tracking reading history for that reason.

ALSO.

A lot of people in the U.S. need to read "Maus" immediately.

Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

Here's your assignment.
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EveryLibrary Objects to Trump Administration Calling Book Bans a Hoax Book bans have not been a Biden-era hoax, and we have the receipts to prove it.

Thousands of books have been targeted for removal from school and public libraries. 

In fact, we've been tracking thousands of book bans here.

Yet, the U.S. Dept of Education released a statement calling book bans a hoax!

bit.ly/4h76cS5 via @everylibrary.bsky.social