My first activity book for kids is now available from Get Creative 6 Publishing! I had so much fun working on this and the people at Get Creative 6 were really a pleasure to work with. The book features pages to color, scratch-off artwork, puzzles, games, and, of course, plenty of cute, baby animals. Available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble.
VPM Focal Point interviewed me recently for a show they did on working artists in Virginia. You can see my segment in the player above. I’ve been so busy lately working on a big project I’m not yet allowed to discuss (more on that later!) that I really had no idea what I had said during the interview. I had to wait until it aired to find out if anything I said was even coherent! Thankfully, the good folks at VPM Focal Point picked a suitable clip. Coherency accomplished.
They also posted a nice blog article that covered a bit more, including a nice picture of my dad’s old sketchbook which was a major influence on my desire to become a professional illustrator.
DuBar is literally drawing on his past, saying he learned to love cartoons as a child, inspired by his father Jules DuBar’s depression-era doodling.
”He created his own neighborhood newspaper,” DuBar recalls about his dad. “He would write stories and interview people in the neighborhood and he would do the comic strips as well. He still had a few of those and that was really, when I was a kid, that really blew my mind.”
Angie Miles and Samantha Willis | VPM News
You can see the full article here: https://vpm.org/news/articles/31614/a-promising-future-for-virginias-professional-artists
A big thank you to Angie Miles, Samantha Willis, and Emanuel Tambakakis for including me and for doing such a great job! It’s not often that artists or illustrators get featured on tv, and I’m grateful to have been a part of that.
My third children’s book, Zippy Buzzy Bee, won a Platinum MarCom Award in the Cartoon category of the international 2021 MarCom Awards! Thanks to the MarComs, author Deborah Cross, and to Fabi Preslar at SPARK Publications for entering Zippy Buzzy Bee (and for being so great to work with)!
Administered by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals, the annual MarCom competition is one of the largest for creative professionals and receives submissions from nineteen countries around the world.
Order your copy at https://my.epublishyou.com/zippybuzzybeebook
My latest children’s book, Dreamwalker and Chloe, is available now for Kindle. Written by Callie Michael. Published by Heavy Crown Press.
Click here to order your copy in the kindle store.
Print version available soon!
I was so excited to see Slow Motion Crush drummer, Scott Zook, sporting my screaming chicken t-shirt for his latest band promo pic! Scott’s an old friend of mine from way back in middle school when I was doing cartoon parodies of Star Wars and He-Man.
You can get your very own Screaming Chicken t-shirt in my zazzle store here: https://www.zazzle.com/collections/t_shirts-119424357672922732
And you can check out Austin metal band, Slow Motion Crush here: https://www.facebook.com/slowmotioncrushatx
I am so happy and honored to be invited to speak to students at
Tye River Elementary School about my first children’s book, Short Pump Bump! Here’s the flyer I designed for the event, which is taking place
My visit will include:
Signed copies of Short Pump Bump can be ordered directly from my shop! Click here for details on how to use the special promo/coupon code.
I was very happy to dedicate this week’s Drawing Challenge illustration to #kidlit4climate. Not only does it support a cause that is very important to me, but it also has given me an opportunity to continue my now-ongoing bee series with There Is No Planet Bee.
UK children’s book illustrator Emma Reynolds is asking the
Short Pump Bump was featured on local news in Richmond when author Angie Miles went to an elementary school for a class reading. It was the first of many school visits to come, I’m sure!
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In related news, Short Pump Bump was also mentioned in the winter edition of the SCBWI Mid-Atlantic newsletter, The Highlighter.
Author Angie Miles is featured on the cover of this month’s issue of Fifty Plus for an article on the release of our new children’s book, Short Pump Bump. You can check out the article online at issue.com. Short Pump Bump is currently available online via amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com, and belleislebooks.com. School visits and other events can be arranged at shortpumpbump.com, where you can also purchase copies signed by the author. I am currently working on adding a shop to my site where you can purchase copies signed by me, along with a bookmark and art print of one of the poems from the book, Opportunity Time. Be sure to check back soon for updates!
