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hey everyone, i have a way to sell you some art!!!!
this is new to me, so if anyone tries it---let me know if it is worthwhile. you can check it out here.

tax day!!!!

it's tax day! which reminds me, i'm in trouble with the IRS. so i'm kinda like willie nelson, right? except i can't put out a reggae album to cover my debt. so, instead, i have to put aside my childrens book illustrator integrety and get some work! i'll draw what you need. i'll do it for money! i'll mow your yard (mentally) if that's what you need. ok, mail me at: jimitri@gmail.com and help me pay THE MAN!

remembrances of a saab dealer

good bye kurt vonnegut! this news saddens me because of all the people possible to check in with about what it is to be human, kurt has checked out. i read his books in my twenties and then again in my forties....and the same words had an entirely different meaning in the twenty years of my bumbling around. his writing helped me anchor my own vague thoughts and slow epiphonies about what we are doing here. secular humanism, human cruelty, those unaware workings of the divine, and the hiccups of family and loss. if i'm lucky i'll read them all again in my sixties and realize once more that i know so little. be a baby!

i just finished a series of posters for st. jude's pediatric cancer treatment center. they are for four seasonal parties for the kids there. i also completed work on three new books, one of them is actually old...it's a ten year anniversary version of Olive The Other Reindeer...and it has a big pop-up in it! it will be out this holiday season....
later,
j.otto