Pens Are My Friends
I’m trying not to play favorites, but this is really the best art book I think I have ever purchased. Hello Duudle and Gribba Grub were awesome endeavors, but Pens Are My Friends is like the Encyclopedia Burgerman. The comprehensive book is currently available from IdN (the folks who published Jeremyville’s Vinyl Will Kill and Sessions and always pair their top notch tomes with awesome extras). For the first time ever Jon’s commercial, personal and collaborative works are collected together in one lavish publication. Included amongst the many projects are toys, clothing, exhibitions, murals, customizations, sketches and more. Accompanying the hundreds of pages of brain melting doodles, drawings, characters and colors are essays by the Pictoplasma team and editor of Modart Magazine, insights into Jon’s working process and, of course, photos of salads. Pens Are My Friends also includes a DVD packed full of animated goodies, documentary stuff and things to beautify your computer; a poster; a mini-sketchbook and a couple of fold-outs. It will be the best $55 you ever spent on reading material.
Says Jon: “The book is bright, bold and heavy; be careful not to drop it on your foot.” Word.
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