Sarah MacLean's site is up!

Sarah MacLean's newly redesigned website is up, and it features my artwork! She hired me earlier this year to depict her characters from her novels "The Season" and "Nine Rules to Break when Romancing a Rake," and they're all there now on her site. It was a great job, a lot of fun, and I can't wait to read more of her books.



Here's the intrepid trio of girls from "The Season," Vivi, Alex and Ella respectively, dressed in day dresses circa 1815. "The Season" is Alex's story, and it's a fun, frothy story very much in the vein of Georgette Heyer, with romance, ballgowns, adolescent angst, a murder, and a villainous rake I'd love to see more of. It can be purchased here.










And here's Callie and Ralston, the hero and heroine from Sarah's upcoming romance from Avon/HarperCollins, "Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake." These two are dressed to party like it's 1820, with miss in a hyacinth-blue ballgown with Renaissance-inspired trimmings, and milord in a frock coat and riding boots. I read a few chapters to get the feeling of the characters, but it was smart, sexy and charming. I'm excited to read the rest of it when it comes out next year!

Mad Men fanart

"Mad Men" is probably my favorite show on air right now (even more so than "Dollhouse" or "30 Rock"). I've loved it since the first episode, and I'm pleased to see it's been renewed for a fourth season. Yay!



Here's a few pieces I've done of the past few years. This first one, I did after the second episode in August '07. Ah, the memories! This was before Peggy Olson had gotten pregnant, and a beardless Paul Kinsey was still hitting on her. (But Pete Campbell is still pouting, so at least that hasn't changed.) This predates the awesome art of Dyna Moe -- I think it might be the first piece of Mad Men fanart ever. I am slightly embarrassed by it, though.



I did this next piece last week, right after episode #6, "Guy Walks into an Advertising Agency." It's Guy "Footless" MacKendrick (Jamie Thomas King) and everyone's favorite office manager, Joan Holloway Harris (Christina Hendricks). Both so pretty, and yet so doomed!

I hope to do more sketches over the next few weeks. This show certainly has its share of eye candy!

Astonishing Adventures #7

Hey everyone-- issue #7 of Astonishing Adventures magazine is finally online!

Have some crazy fun with the wonderful stories from writers like Mike Hughes, Christine Pope, Katherine Tomlinson, Sidney Harrison, Roger Alford, Brian Trent, Sarah Vaughn (aka Savivi), Kat Parrish, Michael Patrick Sullivan, G. Wells Taylor, and Cormac Brown.

Soak in the amazing images by artists like Larry Nadolsky, G. Wells Taylor, Sarah Vaughn, Susan Schader and also from yours truly!

Linkspam:

Astonishing Adventures social network
Astonishing Adventures Magazine Issue 7 Print Version: ISBN 1448687330, $10.00
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We're all hard at work now on issue #8, which will be bigger and better than ever!

Here Be Bosoms

Me and my pal Ruth were at the Barnes & Noble at the Glendale Americana tonight, and guess what I found?



It looked very pretty, and of course the teenage kid at the information desk smirked when I told him the title. (It also took me 15 minutes to find since it was supposed to be under Lit Crit, but was misfiled under fiction.) I can't wait until S.B. Sarah sends me my copy!

(The photo is courtesy of Ruth Epling, taken with her awesome iPhone.)

I'm on NPR!

I did a number of illustrations for "Beyond Heaving Bosoms: The Smart Bitches' Guide to Romance Novels" by Sarah Wendell and Candy Tan, and they were just interviewed on NPR's "All Things Considered." You can hear their interview here. You can also see my illustration on NPR.org!

Here's Mavis, the stereotypical romance novel reader, as described by Sarah and Candy:



"Beyond Heaving Bosoms" is available to buy now. It's a hilarious book with lots of great illustrations, by me and Carol Main. Check it out!

Hovercat

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's hovercat!