Do You Believe in Santa?

Did you loose faith...

Well if you did, Yes Santa by Gerald Dowgin might just be the answer to restore it. After reading this little wonder you might wonder why you ever had lost your faith. Did you ever think that believing in the Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy, and Santa would be so crucial for society as we know it?

Watch the trailer below.

 

For this book and other great tales visit www.salemhousepress.com. Yes Santa is available on Amazon.com.

Stranger in a Strange Town

You Think Your Town is Strange...

If you had moved to a strange town, which person would you like to meet below? Tyler had lots of odd characters walk past him in his first week to Gibsonton Florida. When your parents are contract software workers, you end up in many bizarre places, but Gibsonton takes the cake.

Tell us which character below you would like to meet, or cross to the other side of the street quickly if you seen them.

 

Tyler Moves to Gibsonton Florida by Chris Dowgin is available on Amazon.com. For more information on Chris and Salem House Press please visit www.salemhousepress.com.

Also read Tyler's Blog about all of the Strange places in America he has lived in at

Tyler-The Boy Who's Always on the Move....

John Bauer: Illustrator of the Week

There Be Trolls...

John Bauer

Here is one for all of you Nordic Viking lovers. Trolls! John Bauer painted plenty of them and several stories about Scandinavian fairy tales and myths. Check him out!

Find out more about Jon Bauer:
Wikipedia

Salem Secret Underground Sells Out Its First Order at Barnes & Noble

Hurry Up Get Yours Before There Gone!

We are on our second order at the Peabody Barnes & Noble. Two left on their shelf. Go grab one and help us get many orders from this great national chain! Get Salem Secret Underground:The History of the Tunnels in the City the book everyone digs Today!

James C. Christensen: Illustrator of the Week

Flying Fish and Pompous Bureaucrats with Cod Pieces...

James C. Christensen

I have been admiring this guy since grammar school! My mother always would get catalogs from the Greenwich Workshops and give them to me. These were my first reference photos. I would take pieces from several different illustrations to composite my own. I had cut out several images from them, to find out that three distinct styles I was hanging up were all from the same guy. It was James.

He does a great mixture of fairy tale and pun. Image if Bosch was a happy man, he would of painted like James. So take a look for yourself...

More About James C. Christensen:

Greenwich Workshop

Official Page

Wikipedia

Cheers,

Chris

Top Draw Animation!

Are You Afraid of the Dark....

Well Figaro Pho is, along with everything else!
Here is one of my favorite cartoons. High frame rates, ingenious plots, and two lovable characters. A little frightening, but only on Figaro Pho's part...
Check it out!

Seth Wouldn't Look So Cute.....

Man Behind the Curtain...

 

Webster Colcord
 I met him one day in Boston watching him line up the animation for Ted to Seth MacFarlane motion capture suit. I had been talking and watching him run the program for an hour or so. He was real cool to talk to and real personable. Then through some emails we realized we knew common people from Olive Jar who created those early MTV claymation pieces. Including my friend Chris Corkum who was a stand in for Don Dokken in a video Olive Jar produced. More about the zaniness of Corkum another day...

Webster has provided animation for CGI sequences in many of the blockbusters you are familiar with like Deadpool, Sin City 2, Ted, The Matrix, Night at the Museum, and Pirates of the Caribean. He got his start as the animator for the Raisin Bran and California Raisin commercials. 

He also is known for his work with Les Claypool and Primus videos. My favorite is his work in Monkey Bone and James and the Giant Peach.

Here is a trailer from Monkeybone with Brendan Fraser: