A spread from DON"T CALL ME PRUNEFACE!

A spread from Don't Call Me Pruneface!.

Don't let the grumpy expressions fool you its a happy day at Hypnotik Eye as the winners of Don't Call Me Pruneface! have been picked and the copies will be in the mail this week! Congratulations and thank you's too Ellen, Jana and Ron! Hope you enjoy the book!

I'm getting my Pruneface copies this week so Friday will be the last day of the Pruneface contest.
I have a nice stack of names so if you want to be added to the hat just send me a email at drazenart@rogers.com with the heading Pruneface!.. I'll pick three names on the weekend and
send out the books some time the following week.


Don't Call Me Pruneface! at Chapters!

Don't Call Me Pruneface!, written by Janet Reed Ahearn and published by Disney- Hyperion will be
released the first week of August. I thought I would post the cover and a interior image
along with some isolated ones.
I had a great time illustrating this book and I think in it Janet cleverly deals with two interesting personalities and the rocky road to friendship.
Prudence is the inelegant new arrival to a conventional neighbourhood and is not eager to make friends with Paul who is rebuffed with a escalating symphony of insults as he tries to break through
to her and her troublesome cat, throwing his life out of whack and not finding much comfort in
his Grandmothers short missives of advice.

What I loved about the book is how Paul is tenacious in his attempts at friendship with a girl who doesn't share his sensibilities but obviously feels he has a connection with, wants to hang out with, resulting in a crisis point.

Parents (or Grandparents) are not always around to help or give you a obvious solution, sometimes you can't help getting angry and it can open a door to a solution, its ok to mess up are interesting ( but not politically incorrect,at least not to me) ideas this book tackles with what can happen on the road to friendship.



Rather than pointing out some of the troubling personality of Prudence by overly brooding images, I hoped that
by juxtaposing the troubling inner conflict going on within the characters with images of a brighter,ordinary world around them that kids would be able to find jumping off points of discussion with what is going on in the book and how they would resolve such situations on their own.



I think Janet wrote a funny, multilayered story as well as a simple, fun to read, slice of life adventure.
Hope you like it.






I'l also be doing a giveaway of three signed copies of the book.
All you have to do is email me drazenart@rogers.com with Pruneface! as the subject and I will
put the names in a hat and on the second week of August I'll put my hand in this hat and randomly select 3 winners. First prize gets a sketch incuded.

Its available for preorder online but I received some copies the other day of my first official picture book Don't Call Me Pruneface! written by Janet Reed Ahearn and published by Disney-Hyperion who published my first children's book Diary of a Fairy Godmother. It was a joy to work with Tamson the editor, and Jennifer the art director at Hyperion and it will be released August 3rd so more posts about it after that. I won't lie to you, I love Janet's story and I'm very happy with how the book came out. Here it is in my happy paws.