We are thrilled to announce a new Cuddlefish member, Jane Maday!
Jane Maday began her career at 14 years of age, as a scientific illustrator for the University of Florida. After receiving a Bachelor’s degree from the Ringling College of Art and Design, she was recruited by Hallmark Cards, Inc, as a greeting card illustrator. Though her scientific past helps Jane add realism to her artwork, she soon discovered she enjoys painting the outsides of animals to the insides!Jane left the corporate world after her children were born, and moved to beautiful Colorado. Her work has adorned 25 children’s books, as well as collector’s plates, ornaments, cards, t-shirts, garden flags, jigsaw puzzles, and many more. Recently, Jane added author to her list of accomplishments, writing the best-selling art instruction book, “Adorable Animals You Can Paint “(published by F&W Publications), as well as numerous smaller works and magazine articles. In addition to the breathtaking Colorado landscape, Jane has two children, a menagerie of animals, and a garden for inspiration, and a wonderful husband to share it all.Visit Jane at https://www.instagram.com/janemaday/ to learn more!
Dow Phumiruk’s art (shown above) was selected by The Parenting Asian America Project’s twitter cover art!
Congratulations to Dow Phumiruk for An Equal Shot landing on A Mighty Girl’s Sunmer reading list.
Cover reveal for Dow Phumiruk‘s book illustration, Her Name Was Mary Katharine. Read more about this via John Schu’s blog.
Art preview of Dow Phumiruk‘s book illustrations for Hello, Tree by Ana Crespo.
Lily Williams‘s book, If Bees Disappeared was highlighted by Kirkus in their article, In Praise of the Honeybee.
Congratulations to Lily Williams for having her book, If Elephants Disappeared selected as “ECO Bookworms Book Club Pick” for May!
Lily Williams‘s Go With the Flow was selected by the New York Public Library Bookmobile as a staff pick!
And in even more exciting news for Lily, Go With the Flow was nominated for an Eisner Award!
In addition, Go With the Flow was selected as finalist for the Excellence in Graphic Literature Award and finalist for the Mosaic Award!
A great review for Lobstah Garden, illustrated by E.G. Keller/Gerald Kelley by the SLJ!
Glowing review from Publisher’s Weekly for Twisty Turny House, illustrated by E.G. Keller/Gerald Kelley
E.G. Keller/Gerald Kelley had the pleasure of having Rashida Jones narrate his book, Please Please the Bees for Storyline Online.
The Lost Package, illustrated by Jessica Lanan gets a starred review from Booklist!
Also, see John Schu do a case cover reveal for this book!
Congratulations to our own Larry Day for winning the 50th Annual Carbondale Mountain Fair T-Shirt/Poster contest!
Our own Kaz Windness, was the Author/Illustrator Spotlight for Kidlit411 in June!
Happy book birthday to If Ur Stabby by Kaz Windness.
“The Wandering Jellyfish Bookshop will be hosting a show of my Stabbified Thrift paintings in October, so I have an excellent excuse to make more. (Rubs hoofs together evilly.) Stabby Unicorn Comics “
Heather Brockman Lee‘s art appeared in the latest issue of Ladybug Magazine!
Stan Yan‘s Peter Cadaver comic strip relaunched as a permanent weekly feature in the Sunday Ha Ha.
Stan Yan and Dow Phumiruk answer author interview questions for this Boulder Book Store video: https://youtu.be/OVNjkFLEMcQ and Jessica Lanan in part 2: https://youtu.be/qhPk4xDHAQI
Three of our members’ work is contained in this coloring book: Dow Phumiruk, Lily Williams, and Stan Yan! Thanks to Second Star to the Right Books for supporting our author/illustrators!
Finally, Cuddlefish Gang members, Kaz Windness, Heather Brockman Lee, David Deen, Dustin Resch, Anden Wilder, Amber Owen, and Stan Yan have all been contributing illustrations to Beastly Words!
The Cuddlefish Gang: Together We Can Do AnyFIN! 