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Many of you have been wondering when and how you can buy tickets for the upcoming Totoro Forest Art Auction Benefit Event to be held here at Pixar on September 6th. Finally we are ready to start selling these online! The sale will start monday at 10am. Here’s the options available – Please note that [...]

Lookee lookee … it’s already for pre-order on Amazon. Hard to beat such a deal. Might want to order a couple extra copies just for Christmas gifts?

We just reviewed the proofs for the “Art of Totoro Forest Project Book” and Wow. What a stunning book this is going to be, the dummy looks amazing and each image is looking fantastic. One amazing thing that the designers did for the book is a spot varnish on EACH piece of artwork! Yes you [...]

Yay I just sent all the files and the laser copies of every page of the Chronicles to the printer in HongKong! Time to make this book!

The TFP website has been updated and everyone’s work has now been uploaded! Don’t miss perusing through this fantastic and diverse collection of more than 200 pieces of art. Each artist’s take on the world and inspiration of Totoro is truly a wonder to behold. I’m gonna feature a little work in progress of my [...]

Unfortunately I lost the rough thumbnail I had done for the Gondola piece. The basic layout though started as a vertical one with me drawing on the footsteps of a canal and Marit passing on a gondola. I wanted a lot of water to fill a good amount of the cover, so to fit the [...]

Ladies and gentlemen we present you: “The Totoro Forest Project”. A little idea that turned into a major undertaking. What is it exactly? Totoro Forest Project is an international charity effort to preserve Sayama Forest, also known as Totoro Forest. This endangered sanctuary on the outskirts of Tokyo is where director Hayao Miyazaki got the [...]

Yay! Just received Jillian Tamaki‘s Graphic novel Skim (written by her cousin Mariko Tamaki). It looks wonderful, the drawings have a great loose feeling to them, can’t wait to read it.

We just heard from Gingko Press, the publisher of our book 森 3 Trees Make a Forest, that the it has sold 2500 copies so far. While sales were a little slower than they had hoped out of the gate, the book is proving to be a solid reorder for them. So, that’s great to [...]

I’ve been a fan of Dave Eggers since his brilliant “A heartbreaking work of staggering genius“. Between McSweeneys, his books and his work at 826 Valencia tutoring center it’s not hard to see how he got himself a Ted award. Don’t miss his inspiring Ted Talk here and then if you wish, follow up on [...]