In an experimental mood, I wrote a funny, twisted novel for young adults. It’s actually probably more for grownups but it was intended to acknowledge that teenagers like the creepy and distorted.

Here’s the gist:

Serbin Reek was born looking evil — but he was anything but. After he is wrongly expelled from his high school, Serbin’s step parents send him to their alma mater, SFE, a secret institution deep in the woods of Wyoming. There he discovers that evil can be taught, studied, and graded on a curve.

An unputdownable, hilarious novel for adolescents of all ages.

Buy it in ebook form for your kindle. Equally evil, marginally less attractive on the bookshelf. Price insanely reduced. Just 99 paltry cents. That’s £0.75. A measly €0.86. What a steal! 

Or get in paperback here. Do it now!

Available in paperback from Blur:

And as an ebook on Amazon. Price insanely reduced so everyone can read it!

And vaguely as part of a graphic novel….

I have a lot of friends in all corners of the world who share my love for illustrated journaling and sketchbooking Some are famous designers and artists, some are just people like me who live to drawin their spare time. This boks collects fifty of them together to talk about their journaling life, share their POVs on media, on style, on the artistic life. Writing it was a real education and deeply inspiring. I still turn to it all the time for new insights and directions. You can watch a cool little film about the project right here. This is the book I always wanted to read and now I own a copy. You can too.

My initals are D.O.G. and I love dogs. I love them as friends and as drawing subjects. This little book is a collection of my favorite dog drawings and paintings, augmented by one of my lesser talents, writing little humorous poems. Some have compared me to Ogen Nash, to Hillaire Belloc, to Eminem, but they are few. Form your own opinion. If you love dogs, whistle for a copy of this book immediately. If you don’t love dogs, leave this website immediately.

I never seem to have enough time to do everything I’d like to try. So, recently, I decided to get my butt out of bed an hour earlier each morning and use that time to explore new options -= from stamp collecting to consorting with turtles and Miles Davis. I recorded the experiment, in words and watercolors, and published it as a little journal. It’s a peek into the acute angles of my mind but it’s also an encouragment to look into the corners of your life and see what riches lie therein.  It’s a great read, at any time of day. Don’t delay. Get some Me Time today.

Creativity is someting we are all born with, but somewhere along the way, we convince ourselves we don’t have the right to label ourselves as creative or artists. This book is my attempt to reverse that with a step-by-step process to reawaken the creative impulse in us all. It’s designed to be fun, easy, a little snarky, and adictive.  My goal is to help you lay the foundation for a lifelong habit of drawing, making things, and becoming what you always dreamed of being — an artist. It’s crammed with drawings and paintings and designed to be your constant, dog-eared, coffee-stained sidekick. Pick yours up today.

My third book was the beginning of a whole new chapter in my publishing career — and in my life. It’s a memoir of my wife’s parapalegia, the accident that caused it, and how it changed everything. It’s also about drawing and how I discovered its ability to give me perspective and peace.It has been published in hardcover and paperback and even in Korean. It has also spawned all sorts of groups and evernts as people came to share my discoveries and applied them to their own lives.  It’s a funny book — most people who buy a copy end up buying lots more to give to their friends. Fortunately, there are some left. Get yours here.

My second book is a tribute to classroom filmstrips — if you were born before 1980, you probably remember them. I loved the way they condensed lessons down to a few dozen beautiful illustrations, photos, and sentences. They instantly transported me back to a simpler time. In researching this book, I came to wonder why we were being taught the lessons they contained. That led me to study the issues of the day, tho uncover how education, politics and propaganda converge. Selected by Amazon as one of the funnies book s of the year, it’s odd and beautiful and truly one of a kind. And you can get one of your own right here.

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I knew nothing about ham radio when I came upon an album full of QSL postcards at a flea market, I was blown away by the varied styles and creative solutions each ham had used to make these souvenirs of their on air friendships.  It’s a cornucopia of design, art, history and politics. and it all belonged to one man, Jerry Powell, who broadcast from his basement in New Jersey throughout the twentieth century. If you love ham radio or even know nothing about it, this gorgeous book will delight you. It was crafted by award-winning designer Paul Sahre and is full of tidbits about the hobby, about obscure political events, and creativity. Chosen by the AIGA as one of the 50 Best Books of the year, and yet available to mere mortals too. Sign up for a copy today,