Good afternoon! How are you? I'd like to introduce you to a new friend of mine. We met in my sketchbook back in April, and we've been working together ever since. He's friendly, he's furry, and rumor has it that his family lives on the roof of Saks Fifth Avenue in New York, making snow. If you'd like to have one of your own, click here.
There's more, but right now I just thought you guys should meet! I get a feeling that he loves you, and you know that 344 LOVES YOU too!
As always, you can click on the images for a bigger view!
As you can see, he's kinda shy, but just scratch his back or under his arms, and he'll be your friend for life. Also, if you meet his fraternal twin, he's a lot more outgoing:
Here they are together:
My friends at Saks have started a catch-and-release program, so look for the tag on the yeti's heel:
Look! It's Surprise Advance Copy Day! DHL just brought me the first copy of the new book! It's already listed on Amazon, but I can't wait to see this thing in the stores in August. More importantly, I can't wait for you to see it! I hope you'll find it helpful when you do. And maybe a little fun, too. For now, please rest assured that 344 LOVES YOU
Good morning. Just a quick Hello from me today. I have 12 days to finish my new book, make revisions, and send it to the printer for an August release. Among many other things the book will feature three new custom alphabets I'm furiously drawing up just for this. I thought you'd enjoy a look at the process. Take it as yet another sign that 344 LOVES YOU
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The initial pencil sketches:
Stage 2 -- The Inkening:
Good afternoon! As some of you may already know from other sources, I've written and illustrated a new book, published by the good people at Knock Knock. I've been meaning to tell you about it for weeks, and somehow the days just keep getting away from me. But now we've had the official launch party at Skylight Books, and it's getting more and more embarrassing that I haven't tolfd you about any of it here on the site.
So, will I tell you all about the book right now? No. (It's another one of those days.) But I will post pictures, and I will quote Alissa Walker's excellent piece on the book over at GOOD Magazine.
Have you endured up to six months of involuntary abstinence while in a committed relationship? Bravely placed your toothbrush into the caddy of another? Designer Stefan G. Bucher thinks that you should get a medal for that. No, seriously, he has designed you a medal. Bucher's new book You Deserve a Medal: Honors on the Path to True Love (Knock Knock, $16) includes 40 medals that acknowledge the unique feats of strength required for modern relationships, from sending a poetic love letter via text message to inducting a successful (yet dignified) pet name.
Bucher, who recently entertained us with his Daily Monster project and his products for 826 LA's Time Travel Mart, uses his sharp pen and even sharper wit to transform even the most banal aspects of courtship into a worthy moment for commemoration. The book even includes a "love medals glossary" in which Bucher painstakingly explains the iconography behind the insignia, as well as criteria for earning the medals as decreed by fictional entities like the Council of Romantic Decorations. It's hilarious, sometimes heartbreakingly funny commentary on modern love.
And it's not just the book! There are three actual medals, too! Steven Heller wrote about those on The Daily Heller! Once again I quote:
Bucher has also produced some of the medals in their own ceremonial boxes. They can be worn proudly on formal wear, business attire, or pajamas, for those so depressed they cannot get out of bed.
Now, what was I saying? Oh yes! Photos! Here we go...
And, of course, my favorite part of any book, the headband:
And let's not forget the actual medals:
Lastly, how about me and the Knock Knock team being our most animated selves at the launch party?
You can see all the party pics at this link here. (And no, they won't all give you seizures. I just couldn't resist this one.)
Sorry it's taken me so long to put this up on the blog for you. I hope you'll check out the book and the medals -- at a quality gift store near you, at Skylight Books, at the Echo Park Time Travel Mart, or on Amazon -- and that you'll like what you'll see. For now, I hope you're having a great week, and that you're aware that 344 LOVES YOU
Happy New Year! I hope you entered 2011 in good health and high spirits! This is just a quick Hello, and a look at the progress of Book No.5, which will be out in late summer. Once all the pages here have a pink frame, I start getting out my pens. Then it's on to scanning and coloring. Lots yet to do, but it's taking shape!
Of course, Book No.4 will be out in early March. What can I tell you about either of these books? Nothing just yet, really. I'm so sorry. (Didn't you see the title of this post? :^)
I do hope you'll enjoy 'em both when you do see 'em! They're both totally different from each other in content, and almost identical in physical size. One may have a Monster on the back cover. We'll see.
I just wanted you to know that I'm not sitting idle,
and remind you that 344 LOVES YOU
Hello! You know how I keep going on about Monsters I can't show you yet? Monsters that are keeping me so busy that I'm not updating the blog enough? Well, here at last are some of them!
Please meet 12 BIGGER MONSTERS, a limited edition portfolio of a dozen larger than usual Daily Monster® drawings. I created these Monsters especially and exclusively for this portfolio. After hundreds of letter-sized characters I thought it would be nice to go a bit bigger. Dramatic scale! Fine detail! The works!
It’s taken me 16 months to select the 12 Monsters that comprise this collection. In that time I made tons of large drawings. Many of them were nice, but didn’t quite measure up. I wanted every one of these Monsters to be great, and I wanted them to come in the fanciest possible containment unit. No expense was spared. Please take a look:
Edition Size: 100 signed and numbered copies
Print Size: 12 x 16 inches (30.5 x 40.6 cm)
Printing: 4-color digital offset printing with a double-hit of black
Paper: Mohawk Options Smooth Digital 80 lb. Cover (216 gsm)
Each print is embossed with a 0.344 in. (0.87 cm) diameter 344 seal.
Portfolio Case: Custom-made 12.5 x 16.5 in. (31.8 x 41.9 cm) case covered in iridescent silk that changes color from tan to bright pink depending on viewing angle. The case has hardcover flaps, a hidden magnetic closure, and a custom Daily Monster liner. The cover of each case is blind-debossed with the number 12 in a 5.25 inch diameter circle.
Shipping: Each portfolio is protected by a clear, resealable Mylar bag, and ships inside a bubble-lined polybag envelope, which is packed in a snug corrugated cardboard mailer. Each portfolio ships with a pair of archival gloves of nylon or cotton, so you can handle the prints without risk of unsightly fingerprints.
Total Weight: 2 lb 8 oz (1.13 kg)
Please note that these prints are 12 x 16 inches in size, which means they fit into standard picture frames, so you can put these Monsters on your wall without breaking the bank. (Alternatively, you can put one
Monster each on the walls of twelve of your friends this Holiday Season.)
If you’d like to place an order, you can do so by clicking the PayPal button. I’ll ship the portfolio to you via U.S. Priority Mail. If you’d like shipping via FedEx, please contact me so I can get a shipping rate for you. Please order before December 1st to guarantee delivery by December 24th.
If you'd like to take a closer look at the Bigger Monsters, you'll find them below. You can also see a version of this page on the 344 site that has bigger images of all the creatures. For now, I hope you like the new guys, that you have a stress-free and delicioius Thanksgiving, and that you know: 344 LOVES YOU
Good evening! Remember the thing I posted about the upcoming 826LA event hosted by Judd Apatow? Well, it's really, really coming up now! We're less than 24 hours away, and Typecraft just printed the commemorative poster that will be handed out to the performers and the VIP attendees. Check it out!
We ran an ad in Daily Variety, too:
And lastly, we're having a red carpet entrance at the event tomorrow, but didn't want to go the celebrotastic step-and-repeat route. Instead I revived this idea from the Graphic Eye launch party last year, and made a sign people can hold. I hope we'll get great photos! Here's roughly what I'm hoping for, but with better clothes, and... you know... shoes.
For now, I hope you're having an excellent Halloween week! New Monster action is coming your way soon, but for now I hope you'll take my word for it when I tell you that 344 LOVES YOU
Good afternoon! How are you? What's new? Sheesh, it's been so long between posts again. I apologize. I'm working harder right now than I've ever have, but I'm not allowed to show you any of the results. Yet. Which is frustrating, but temporary. (Lots of new work coming your way soon, in other words!)
Happily, I just did a favor for my friends at 826LA -- owners and proprietors of the Echo Park Time Travel Mart -- that I CAN post for you. It's the announcement for their upcoming fundraiser JUDD APATOW presents I FOUND THIS FUNNY -- An Evening of Music & Comedy to Benefit 826LA, featuring special guest appearances by Lindsey Buckingham, Josh Homme, Garry Shandling, and many more surprise guests!
It's not often that I get to do a piece that unites so many of my personal favorites. And this is just today's version! As the poster says, there are even more surprise guests we'll be adding between now and October 29th! There will also be an extra tricked out print version of this thing once we have all our stars lined up.
But for right now, something NEW from me to you! Finally!
Because you damn well know that 344 LOVES YOU
