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Holiday shipping deadlines are quickly approaching, so if you want Savage Chickens stuff for Christmas, visit the store today! I recently bought myself these two shirts and they are super-comfy.
BOOK UPDATE: Here’s the cover of the Savage Chickens book, Savage Chickens: A Survival Kit for Life in the Coop, which will be published by Perigee Books in March 2011!
Creating the cover was a lot of fun for me. I worked with the awesome Nellys Li, a senior designer from Penguin USA’s Putnam Art Department in NYC. We came up with a bunch of ideas. I mailed Nellys some sketches on sticky notes and she took photos of them in office settings, but that didn’t quite look right so we tried some hand-drawn covers instead. Along the way, we got valuable input from my editor, the publisher, and the sales team. Nellys combined elements from a couple of my drawings to create the final cover above.
Here are a couple of black-and-white sketches of other cover ideas that we considered:
Here’s more information about the book. And you can get book updates and a daily chicken by email — just sign up for my mailing list.
Happy Halloween!
Well, I received over a thousand entries for the Halloween Contest this year and they were better than ever. Popular recurring themes included: dead end jobs, Hansel and Gretel, kids meals made from kids, Harry Potter, loads of newt eyes, MacBeth, and plenty of chicken burger cannibalism! It was very difficult to choose winners, but here they are…
First prize (4 mugs):
“Cauldron-size me”
–Jacob
Second prize (2 mugs):
“Wow, your costume is so elaborate! How’d you attach the menu to your head?”
–Andrew
Third prize (1 mug):
“The Gingerbread House isn’t working any more. How much for your sign out front?”
–Mike
Congrats to the winners and thanks to all who participated! Also thanks for all the wonderful emails I received along with your entries – you people are awesome. Have a safe and happy Halloween!
I drew an illustrated FML for the folks at FMyLife.com. It’s a cartoon based on one of the FML stories, drawn on a 3″ x 5″ sticky note.
Check it out: FMyLife
And there’s an interview with me!
Buy my new book!
