WHAT'S NEW
OUR LATEST BOOK . . .
. . . is also one of our oldest. Random House has just published a new board-book edition of THE NOISY COUNTING BOOK, first published in 1987. This will be bad news for used-book dealers, who have been getting big bucks for second-hand copies, but good news for fans of the book. Ga-dunk!
CONGRATULATIONS, LUNCHTIME READERS!
The latest kids to complete our HOW TO BE A CARTOONIST course are all members of the Lunchtime Readers Club at the Ivy Hill School in Arlington Heights, Illinois. This is a short course for kids in the art of cartooning. All of the Lunchtime Readers aced the final exam, and their diplomas have been sent in the mail. You can click on their names to see the cartoons of May Joy, Claire, Alicia, Diana, Abby, and Emilia. You can begin the course yourself here. All you need to get started is some paper and a pencil (the pen comes later).
NEW UKULELE
This is another tenor ukulele, known as The Wormwood Special. It is the latest addition to the GALLERY, which, in addition to one other hand-painted ukulele, also offers other egg tempera paintings in hobo frames, post cards, and t-shirts!
MY NEW PEN
We have a friend named Dan Berglund who designs and makes lighting fixtures. Jon Buller recently visited his workshop and said he thought a handsome dip pen could be made out of the brass parts Dan uses to make lamps. A couple of days later Dan showed up with this amazing brass dip pen. And he wouldn't even let me take him to lunch in return!
RYERSON ROCKS!
Jon Buller was recently a guest of Ryerson Elementary School in Madison, CT. My favorite part of school visits is when a whole group of classes works together to make a story, and I get to draw the pictures! Here are the Ryerson Masterpieces from:
KISSED BY HOLLYWOOD!
OUR LATEST BOOK . . .
. . . is also one of our oldest. Random House has just published a new board-book edition of THE NOISY COUNTING BOOK, first published in 1987. This will be bad news for used-book dealers, who have been getting big bucks for second-hand copies, but good news for fans of the book. Ga-dunk!
CONGRATULATIONS, LUNCHTIME READERS!
The latest kids to complete our HOW TO BE A CARTOONIST course are all members of the Lunchtime Readers Club at the Ivy Hill School in Arlington Heights, Illinois. This is a short course for kids in the art of cartooning. All of the Lunchtime Readers aced the final exam, and their diplomas have been sent in the mail. You can click on their names to see the cartoons of May Joy, Claire, Alicia, Diana, Abby, and Emilia. You can begin the course yourself here. All you need to get started is some paper and a pencil (the pen comes later).
NEW UKULELE
This is another tenor ukulele, known as The Wormwood Special. It is the latest addition to the GALLERY, which, in addition to one other hand-painted ukulele, also offers other egg tempera paintings in hobo frames, post cards, and t-shirts!
MY NEW PEN
We have a friend named Dan Berglund who designs and makes lighting fixtures. Jon Buller recently visited his workshop and said he thought a handsome dip pen could be made out of the brass parts Dan uses to make lamps. A couple of days later Dan showed up with this amazing brass dip pen. And he wouldn't even let me take him to lunch in return!
RYERSON ROCKS!
Jon Buller was recently a guest of Ryerson Elementary School in Madison, CT. My favorite part of school visits is when a whole group of classes works together to make a story, and I get to draw the pictures! Here are the Ryerson Masterpieces from:
NEW UKULELE
This is another tenor ukulele, known as The Wormwood Special. It is the latest addition to the GALLERY, which, in addition to one other hand-painted ukulele, also offers other egg tempera paintings in hobo frames, post cards, and t-shirts!
MY NEW PEN
We have a friend named Dan Berglund who designs and makes lighting fixtures. Jon Buller recently visited his workshop and said he thought a handsome dip pen could be made out of the brass parts Dan uses to make lamps. A couple of days later Dan showed up with this amazing brass dip pen. And he wouldn't even let me take him to lunch in return!
RYERSON ROCKS!
Jon Buller was recently a guest of Ryerson Elementary School in Madison, CT. My favorite part of school visits is when a whole group of classes works together to make a story, and I get to draw the pictures! Here are the Ryerson Masterpieces from:
RYERSON ROCKS!
Jon Buller was recently a guest of Ryerson Elementary School in Madison, CT. My favorite part of school visits is when a whole group of classes works together to make a story, and I get to draw the pictures! Here are the Ryerson Masterpieces from:
KISSED BY HOLLYWOOD!
The rights to develop The Fog Mound as an animated feature film have been optioned by the film production company Animal Logic. This doesn't necessarily mean that a film will actually be made. It is said in Hollywood, we are told, that an option is like a first kiss -- nice enough, as far as it goes, but still a long way from walking down the aisle. But, still, that is better than not being kissed at all!
ROCKS WITH FACES!
About twenty years ago we did a book called SPACE ROCK, about a kid on his way home from school who finds a rock that looks like it has a face. It turns out that this rock actually is a rock-creature from another planet. Ever since then we have kept an eye out for rocks with faces while walking on the beach, or hiking in the woods, or strolling wherever rocks with faces are likely to be found lurking. By this time we have a couple of dozen of these rocks (as well as a few shells), which we keep in a metal tin that once held a selection of Harrods chocolates. This collection has always seemed one of the more useless of our possessions, until the perfect use for it occurred to us recently, which is that we could put it on our website! HERE IT IS!
VOLCANO COMIX
This is the title of the comic book produced by the kids in the latest Cartoon Workshop sponsored by the Customs House Maritime Museum in New London. The course was taught by Jon Buller, or at least he was the one who passed out the paper and drawing materials. Here is the cover, which has contributions from four kids in the class.
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