Drawn in Brooklyn

DRAWN IN BROOKLYN

Drawn in Brooklyn festival and exhibition of children's book illustrations! Brooklyn's diverse, vibrant environment is home to the most remarkable concentration of children's book professionals on the planet. This fact is put on brilliant display by the work of the illustrators featured in this exhibition. We hope you enjoy this wonderful opportunity to meet these artists and experience their work.

Drawn In Brooklyn Exhibitions
September 21, 2010 – January 23, 2011
Central Library, Grand Army Plaza

Grand Lobby
Original children's book illustrations by 34 artists curated by John Bemelmans Marciano
Foyer Cases
Featured illustrators' picture books
2^nd Floor Balcony Cases
Site-specific installations created by illustrators
Youth Wing
Sketches, models, tools and more that reveal the processes behind
the making of picture book art.

Sean Qualls

Sophie Blackall

Lauren Castillo

Brett Helquist

Peter Brown

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Sneak Peek of Page by Paige Laura Lee Gulledge

I first met Laura Lee in the winter of 2008. She had only been in New York for little less than a year and was ready to make her mark. I had seen a zine she had published and was impressed with how she used metaphors to get her ideas across. She began to post her drawings to her blog www. whoislauralee.blogspot.com. I found them all very intimate, tender and honest. I knew that there was a graphic novel in her but to be sure I sent editor extraordinaire Maggie Lehrman a link to Laura Lee's blog. Next thing ya know ( 8 months later ) Laura is working on her first Graphic Novel Page by Paige!

About the book

Paige has just moved to New York with her family, and she's having trouble adjusting to the big city. In the pages of her sketchbook, she tries out different identities, including the ultra-secret one: ARTIST. As she makes friends and explores the city, she starts to bring her secret identity out into the open, which can be great (new, fabulous friends and possible boyfriend) and terrifying (fights with mom and vulnerabilities exposed). Laura Lee crafts stories with images that are thought-provoking, funny, and emotionally resonant. This is not your ironic, precocious, detached Juno-type teenager—this is the real deal, honest and unflinching.

Laura Lee and Maggie working at my desk

Here are some teaser panels from
Laura Lee's first graphic novel!


Rule # 1 Remove excuses! Buy a sketchbook and draw a few pages each week.


Rule #2 Draw what you know. If you feel it or see it DRAW IT!

Rule #3 Shh . . . quiet . . .
listen to what's going on in your head.

Laura Lee is almost done. All that is left is wrapping up the digital shading part of the process, and tackling the lettering. How yeah and the cover. Yikes! Better get on that.

Who is Laura Lee Gulledge?

"Laura Lee is a cartoonist, illustrator, and all around cool chic. Lee’s imagery and sentiments have been called ‘tender, silly, serious, touching and fun all at the same time.’" —Juxtapoz

Laura Lee, is scenic painter (most notably for Macy's famous holiday windows), muralist, street artist, and glitter technician. She has a Master's degree in Art Education and has taught in both Virginia and Africa. She is currently finishing up writing and drawing her first graphic novel called Page by Paige which will be released in Spring 2011 by Amulet Books. Visit her at www. whoislauralee.blogspot.com

ATTACK OF THE FLUFFY BUNNIES offical Mask!

Listen up ya knuckleheads! Here's your chance to look like a real life space bunny!

Mask by DAN SANTAT

Other Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies blog enteries

1. Cover Evolution
2. Interior Sneak Peak

Art Preview! Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies

A Sneak Peak at the art of ATTACK OF THE FLUFFY BUNNIES

(even though Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies is in-stores as of Mid-May)

Illustrated by
Dan Santat


Story by Andrea Beaty

http://www.abramsbooks.com/Books/Attack_of_the_Fluffy_Bunnies-9780810984165.html

Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies

Authors: By Andrea Beaty

Imprint: Amulet Books

ISBN: 0-8109-8416-4

EAN: 9780810984165

Availability: In Stock

Publishing Date: 5/1/2010

Trim Size: 5 1/4 x 7 1/2

Page Count: 192

Cover: Hardcover

Illustrations: 15-20 B&W illustrations

About the book

When Joules and Kevin Rockman’s parents drop them off at Camp Whatsitooya on their way to an International Spamathon, the twins expect a summer of marshmallows, campfires, and canoe trips. What they do not expect is to defend the earth from an invasion of sugar-addicted, murderous, seven-foot-tall rabbits from another galaxy. Happily, the Rockman twins, veteran watchers of the Late, Late, Late Creepy Show for Insomniacs, are unusually well-prepared for dealing with monstrous beings from outer space. If only their fellow campers were so lucky.
Andrea Beaty, author of several very funny picture books and a mysterious novel, here reaches new heights of hilarity and verbal dexterity in a novel sure to become a camp—ba-dum-dum—classic.

About the author

Andrea Beaty was raised in a small southern Illinois town, where her family ran a tiny grocery store. When she wasn’t roaming the nearby fields with her brothers and sisters, she was reading Nancy Drew mysteries up in the branches of a maple tree. Andrea now lives outside Chicago with her family. She is the author of When Giants Come to Play, illustrated by Kevin Hawkes, and Iggy Peck, Architect, illustrated by David Roberts. Andrea blogs about funny books for kids at www.ThreeSillyChicks.com. Learn more about her at www.AndreaBeaty.com. Dan Santat’s Guild of Geniuses (2004) won the Marion Vannett Ridgeway Award for best debut author/illustrator. He has since illustrated The Secret Life of Walter Kitty, by Barbara Jean Hicks; the Otto Undercover series, by Rhea Perlman; The Ghosts of Luckless Gulch, by Anne Isaacs; and Chicken Dance, by Tammi Sauer. He is also the creator of the Disney animated series The Replacements, and is at work on a graphic novel, The Domesticated Four. He lives with his wife and two children in Southern California. Visit him at www.dantat.com.

Abrams books for Young Readers FALL 2010 Preview

Abrams books for Young Readers FALL 2010 Preview

Click to get a SNEAK PEAK behind the Scenes of DOTTY

Designed by Maria Middleton

Designed by Maria Middleton

Designed by Melisa Arnst

Designed by Maria Middleton