Many Observer-reading friends sent me a link to this article about pop star Mika last night, with the following fantastic tidbit: "Wai...

More than twenty surreal children turned up at the library yesterday to shuffle nouns and verbs and adjectives and elbow each other (ever so...

If you happen to be in New York this Saturday, in the vicinity of the Mulberry Street branch of the Public Library, around 2pm, I'm goin...

Yesterday, at BEA in the cavernous Javits Center in New York, Annie Barrows and I handed out hundreds of these Ivy and Bean cookies. I was r...

New things in the Etsy shop! Click on any picture to take you there...

I've just finished a picture book for Viking, called Big Red Lollipop, written by Rukhsana Khan. I guess it will be out next Spring? I n...

Wombat Walkabout is out today I believe. The Common Wombat was described by William T. Hornaday, Sc. D.(I promise that was his name), in the...

I have started a new blog here , of drawings based on Missed Connections . I'm staying local for now, and in typical, overly ambitious ...

So if you are just tuning in, this drawing game has been an unfolding visual conversation with the singer-songwriter Mika . We began with hi...

Sometimes, on a day filled with fires and plane crashes and lost jobs and suicide bombs, not to mention loathsome Valentine's motifs, th...

As Mika was painting his vibrant jungle, I've been fixating on inky rainforests. The initial inspiration was an early 19th century botan...

So here is the latest addition from Mika. I'll just give you a moment to collect yourselves. ... I'll admit that it was a surprise. ...

Every now and then somebody sends me a calico square and a polite request to draw something on it for a storybook quilt; a quilt of squares ...

I have been playing shop at Etsy.com. It's been very good fun, making things and arranging them on the shelves and sweeping and dusting,...

My friends Mary Harron and John Walsh made a short film for the online film festival, Creepy Christmas, for which I contributed a few props....

I'm in Australia, where it's already Christmas Eve. The snow is polystyrene, but the waves are rolling and the kookaburras are laugh...

Here we go... with a nod to Heath Robinson. A few discerning viewers have questioned the inclusion of sausages in this drawing. I can only r...

Mika has added a smoky elephant to the fray. It's a rather spooky pastiche, leaving me no other option but to... well, you'll see.