The book deals with the execution of a Chinese sugar smuggler in the 1930's.

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My hugely talented wife, Gail McGowan, has started a blog to show off her wire scuptures. This is a recent one she did. There are a bunch o...

approval pending I had a really long list of authors to include on this one and wanted to find an unusual way of doing it.

This is a photo illustration I just did for the New York Times Magazine . It is part of their "key" series where they ask designer...

Approval pending Suggestion was made to show an apple pie with more flys than I had on the cupcake

approval pending First sketch was rejected. Once I got my hands on the actual recipes I knew there was a way to use them on the cover.

Michael Harris Just before going into production the poet decided he wanted a more minimalist approach for his cover so I did a redesign an...

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This is for a cover I am working on now. The book deals with junk DNA. From the brief: "...that most of culture and nature, including h...

After 10 years I figured it was time to buy a new camera. The old one certainly paid for itself. I picked up these bugs in a store and just ...

Sometimes you totally luck out with a Royalty Free image. When I downloaded the low res image for the sketch I didn't realize that there...

Approval pending A life story in recipes. This is just the sketch. The final cover will have actual recipes handed down from the author'...

Approval pending This was an earlier image I developed which I thought could be perfect for this cover. The book peels the truth off the pol...

I have started doing some editorial illustration work recently. This one was for a feature about pet statistics.

An unpublished illustration I did for a cover about the secessionist movement in the United States.

The Road to Airstrip One Ian Slater

This is a three volume biography of the life of Samuel de Champlain from his early years in France to all of his voyages to the new world. F...

A new YA fantasy series I am working on. This is one of 5.

Approval pending Another one colour cover.

Two more for the Salon des refusés . Not the right approaches for the book but fun to work on nonetheless.

approval pending I designed this cover a couple of years ago. I knew there would be a second companion book down the line but put off workin...

I recently did the identity for the small town where I live. Even though I have been doing this for a while I still get a kick out of seeing...

I seem to have found a niche doing covers about the brain. This is one that I am working on now about debilitating head aches. We are going...

Approval Pending The book deals with the final less humorous years of Twain's life I thought it would interesting to put his portrait o...

Beau was hit by a car just before Christmas and after a week in the animal hospital spent the holidays convalescing on the living room floor...

Susan Briscoe

Robin Cody The author recommended this photo for the cover of the book: The risk was that the cover might look too sentimental or clichéd bu...

The author was asked to write 44 letters about the modern world for the Italian daily newspaper, La Republicca which published them serially...

We all have to do them once in a while and it is always a challenge. This one is about the geopolitics of resources. I wanted to create a ve...

Sometimes you come up with a solution and think that it is either too obvious or that it must have been done before. This was the first one ...

Dean Bavington From the brief: The commercial cod fishery in Newfoundland and Labrador was once the most successful in the world. When it co...

Michael Harris This is the rough sketch that was approved. I am going to have to photograph the detritus in the foreground and integrate it ...

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