Friday, April 12, 2013


Sketch for a 2011 Valentine's Day card for my agent, Andrea Brown Lit.. Pencil, 2011.

Thursday, April 11, 2013


"Grab the Fish!", but don't hurt it. Fish don't mind being grabbed now and then. It's the squeezing and shaking that generally follow the grabbing that gets on their nerves. Pen&Ink, 2010.

Wednesday, April 10, 2013


Sketches for pages 6&7 for "Gaijin-American Prisoner of War", a graphic novel written and illus.d by me and publ.d by Disney/Hyperion. Its Dec. 7th, 1941, Koji's 13th birthday. Pencil, 2012.

Tuesday, April 9, 2013


Forgot to post this on Valentine's Day. Just a scribble- turning people at the airport into weirdness a few years ago. Pen&Ink, 2009.

Monday, April 8, 2013

Character sketches for "A Taste of Colored Water", written & illus.d by me, publ.d by Simon&Schuster. Water color, gouache, 2007.

Friday, April 5, 2013


Underlying sketch for a frame in "Gaijin-American Prisoner of War", written and illus.d by me and publ.d by Disney/Hyperion. Its 1942 and Koji and his mom are about to board a bus that will take them along with over 10,000 other Japanese Americans in the San Francisco bay area to a temporary prison camp. Pencil, 2012.

Thursday, April 4, 2013

Illustration for an editorial in Forbes Magazine. The article covered the insatiable greed in the American banking system back in 1987. Yes, that's right- even back in 1987 our banking system was corrupt. Hard to believe, huh? Water color, pen&ink, 1987.