Escape from Netherworld—Piper

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Here she is: Piper the elf from jacket art for Escape from Netherworld—about a group of role-playing gamers who are somehow transformed into their characters and transported into an alternate realm: Netherworld. My pal, the extraordinarily…

Escape from Netherworld—Borhai

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More jacket art for Escape from Netherworld—it’s about a group of role-playing gamers who are somehow transformed into their characters and transported into an alternate realm: Netherworld. Yesterday I showed you Twiggy the dwarf. Here's…

Escape from Netherworld—Twiggy the dwarf

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Hey, gang! Sorry for the interruption in posts—I spent most of last week in New York City visiting art directors, editors and creative directors. Now I’m back and I want to show you something I worked on this summer. Here is jacket art…

Alphabet Trail & Tales 2014

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Thank you Le & Nancy of Citiparks for inviting me to perform in Pittsburgh's Frick Park once again this year—at the wreck of the old Salty Carrot. We added some panels to the interior of our dear old barky. Here they are in progress as…

Davy Jones

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More from P is for Pirate as we count down to Talk Like a Pirate Day, September 19th! I'll be presenting a pirate program at Adams Memorial Library in Latrobe, PA, Friday & Saturday September 19th & 20th. Here is D is for Davy Jones…

Captain Kidd’s ice bucket challenge

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We're still celebrating the release of P is for Pirate and the countdown to Talk Like A Pirate Day (September 19th). Today I've got sketches and a few work-in-progress photos of Captain William Kidd. Kidd wasn't a particularly good pirate—as…

Edward Teach

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As a follow-up to my last post about Queen Anne's Revenge, here is the man himself—the terrible Edward 'Blackbeard' Teach. I show him in close-up so you can see the slow-match fuses he used to weave into his whiskers and set alight before…

R is for Revenge

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Queen Anne's Revenge, that is. Queen Anne's Revenge is the name of Blackbeard Teach's flagship—though I have to admit I don't know why he chose that name. Queen Anne ruled Great Britain & Ireland while Blackbeard was alive, so maybe he…

Q is for Queen

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Here is one of my favorites from P is for Pirate, the notorious Grace O'Malley—Irish queen & pirate captain. She was a contemporary of Queen Elizabeth I and reportedly had an interview with Gloriana (who, after all, had a soft spot for…

A is for Articles

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Here is your Monday dose of P is for Pirate—available in bookstores everywhere by Eve Bunting from Sleeping Bear Press. The Articles were the pirates' ethical guidelines which set out rules for behavior & working conditions aboard ship.…