I’ve been fighting a censorship battle all week. No, a parent did not challenge one of my books in a library. I should be so lucky. That kind of challenge is news- and publicity-worthy.
Instead, I was battling the censors from Texas right in my own head. Worse, I was losing.
Yesterday I submitted my second nonfiction [...]

I have two processes, one for illustrating, the other for writing. They bear little resemblance to one another, except that both use up an awful lot of paper. I do both writing and artwork on my drawing table (pictured), although with writing any comfy chair or sofa will do. Never in bed, and never [...]

Where do I write? Where do I draw? At my desk, of course. And at the kitchen table, on the living room couch, in my bed. In my head. In my dreams.

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Is this a ‘messy desk’ contest? I may have the winning entry.

In truth, I’m not crazy about having a messy desk; it doesn’t quite keep me awake at night, but I’d much prefer an ordered, symmetrically (my math background) organized workspace, files here, references there, phone in the charger where it belongs. Instead, my desk [...]

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