Most recently, I have illustrated a picture book introducing small children (ages 3-7) to the ocean, the result of an invitation by a marine biologist from Haifa, Israel, who saw my Gastronomica cartoons at one of my photography exhibitions. It's now complete and looking for a publisher. We plan for it to be printed in Israel in both Hebrew and Arabic; the North American publication will be in both English and Spanish.
Droplet and her friends go on an adventure,
visiting zones of the ocean from top to bottom.
Droplet and friends are swept into a coral reef ...
Back in a cloud after her adventures in the ocean, Droplet dreams of the creatures she met.
Droplet Visits the Ocean
...a picture book in need of a publisher
My Cartoon History
Cartoons Created for the Back Page of
Gastronomica:Critical Food Studies
Prior to doing Droplet Visits the Ocean, I did the back page for several years for the journal Gastronomica: Critical Food Studies, a general-interest journal published by U.C. Press four times a year. It has articles by food historians, journalists, sociologists, historians, anthropologists, and others.
To your left is a "gallery" of many of the cartoons that appeared in Gastronomica. You can scroll through them and they will get bigger. "Basic Food Groups" was a four-page spread; "Yoga Weekend" was a two-page spread, showing What you See on p.1 and What You Don't See on p.2. The rest of them shown here appeared as single pages.