About Honestly, I’m the kind of person who forgets to introduce himself because I’m more interested in hearing about you than talking about me. But, here we go. I’m an illustrator, author, and educator, and although I’m now living in the suburbs of Tokyo, I’m originally from the US where I earned my Bachelor’s degree […]
I love you. With all of my spooky Halloweeny images and recent punk rock designs, someone might get the impression that I only like dark grungy things, but we all need a little love sometimes, like this happy couple from a set of LINE stickers I created. Line Stickers This time, I needed a little
Let’s Rock!! “I got somethin’ to say!” If you looked through my music collection, you’d actually find a pretty eclectic (pronounced chaotic) collection of (I think) great selections from every genre. But the music I come back to again and again for raw power, originality, and fearlessness is punk (and metal and hard core), but
My English Images Pictures worth a thousand words. As an English teacher, I was always making new materials for students including flashcards, worksheets, and lots and lots of illustrations. So many in fact, that I built My English Images.com, an online hub of resources for teachers including hudreds of worksheets and thousands of illustrations.
100 Common Uncommon Words 2 After making the first book in this series, I had a nagging desire to make one more, this time based on words that came to English from other languages. Why? Well, as Marge Simpson once said, “I just think they’re neat.” Purchase What’s in the book? It was important to
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Learn Cool Words A few years ago, I was teaching English at a university in Nagoya and wanted a way to make learning new words more interesting for my students. One way to do that was to make simple illustrations of our vocabulary terms. These postcards could then be used in activities and materials or
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LINE Stickers In case you haven’t heard of it, LINE is a popular messaging app with a robust sticker store where users can buy and sell sticker sets. It sucks. Don’t get me wrong, the app is just fine, but LINE takes a whopping 70% of all sales which scared off a lot of creators.
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Skull Island Doodles When I was a kid, I was obsessed with this 3D boardgame called Fireball Island! So, a couple years ago, when my son and I started making our own boardgames, I got the bright idea to build my own 3D adventure island – imagine a combination of Clue and Indiana Jones. It