Oh, there are just too many jokes about pencils and leads.....This is a little on the edge of our discussions here, but I thought this would be of interest to some. I have chosen to stick to the traditional craft of fashioning my images from sticks that mark, and paper.

Goble's Fairy Tale illustrationsArabian Nights illustratedAfter what seems like forever, I finally have copies of Arabian Nights Illustrated in my hands.

More than ever, my *free* time is being pulled toward compiling collections for Dover Publications. I have three books that will be coming out in the next two months, including a 144 page tome on classic images from the Arabian Nights. The Fall 08 season, with titles just posted to Amazon, has no less than five new titles I'm editing.

For nearly the last decade, I've held onto the identity of Skaircrow(.com). In recent weeks, I've allowed the domain to "retire", almost like letting a patient die because the pain of going on was worse than the cure... in the next 2 months I hope to create a new base of operations, one which will give me more control and better communication than I've been able to get before.