This is Jim Eidson’s second book — I am proud to have typeset the interior and designed the cover, too. It was quite the investigative adventure to find just the right faces to illustrate the main characters. His book is … Continue reading →

Local author, J. Arthur Eidson, kindly brought his manuscript to GRAFIX to go for typesetting the interior and designing the book cover. His story takes place in the hills and plains around Hamilton, Texas, but the evocative insights are universal. … Continue reading →

Billy McCool, local historian and all-around story teller, had been working on his notes for more than 40 years. His daughter, Sandi Harris, patiently worked with me to get the abundance of words into a single document, which tells the … Continue reading →

This is the second in a series of books from Amy McVay Abbott, the Raven Lunatic, published in the spring of 2014.

Con Chapman wrote a farce of a play and is now publishing the DVD recording. This shows the front and back covers.

I was given a set of fabric paints — ball-pointed ends sprouting from paint tubes, and a tin plate with cinch ring to hold fabric taut. Of course, I decided to make t-shirts. I would find ideas everywhere, comic strips, … Continue reading →

I created this portrait of la Madre de Dios as a digital graphic using vectors. Back in April 2010, I wrote a story using it as the illustration. ~~~~~~~~ The news coming out of Tamaulipas, Mexico is grim. A lone … Continue reading →

When I was about 14 years old, I heard about Hotei, a kind of happy Buddha with a fat belly that one rubbed to have good luck. I asked my father to find me one, and kind man he was, … Continue reading →

In Bosque County, Texas you will find many Norwegian descendants who hold on to the old ways. The city of Clifton has been recognized as the “Norwegian Capital of Texas.” Docents in Norwegian bunader (folk dress) give tours of local … Continue reading →

I made this art on a bet. I challenged myself to draw something, anything, using only elliptical shapes, with a limit of three colors. These kinds of drawings have a surprising number of layers. By joining certain layers into labeled … Continue reading →

This was my submission for the 2013 Hamilton Dove Festival t-shirt.

When Stephen Colbert made a Valentine’s Day joke at Ayn Rand’s expense, I decided to illustrate it. I found an old photo of Ayn, added sketch details and some funky colors, then typeset the “poem.” Just for giggles.