Filed under: dino detectives, my antarctica | Tags: antarctica, art, cartoons, children's books, documentary, graphic novels, illustration, picturebooks, science
My Antarctica hardcover releases March 2024!
This is the first picturebook I’ve illustrated, and it’s actually a 100-page travel diary. So maybe not a picturebook at all. Or maybe a picturebook like no other.
The ever-wayfaring author of the book, G. Neri, got to see both of our Antarctica books up on the big giant screen ahead of the Houston Museum of Natural Science showing Dinosaurs of Antarctica, the sister documentary to our book Dino Detectives, in their Giant Screen Theatre.
Pre-order My Antarctica in the USA from Amazon, Target, or ThriftBooks.
Pre-orders in the UK currently only from Amazon, but watch this space.
Filed under: sketchbook, south africa | Tags: art, children's books, sketchbook, south africa
In a couple of months I’ll be joining some great writers and illustrators as part of the Children’s Book Creators for Conservation @cbcc_wild on a trip to South Africa to learn about wildlife conservation in the area, from the perspective of book creators.
I’m planning to spend every free moment sketching with a view to using the visual research for some forthcoming projects.
We’ve started a fundraising effort on behalf of the trip’s organizers at Wild Tomorrow Fund @wildtomorrow to contribute to their ongoing conservation work.
Read our press release in Publishers Weekly.
The writers and artists are all funding the trip ourselves, so all donations go directly to to conservation, and donors will receive news, updates, and postcards from the trip.
Donate at the Wild Tomorrow website!
Filed under: drawing, graphic novels, illustration, my antarctica | Tags: art, children's books, graphic novels, illustration, publishing
My Antarctica is coming soon from Candlewick Press!
“What’s a proof?“
Glad you asked.
A proof is a printed copy of a book that’s about to be published soon. The author/illustrator takes a look through it and makes sure that the colours look correct, and checks for visual glitches or design misunderstandings. Then, if there’s time, the publisher can change these things at the last minute before the book goes to press.
It’s the best way to make sure an error isn’t printed and bound thousands of times!
I work with proofs a lot in my day job editing images for photo books, and it’s surprising how easy it is for oversights to remain in a book right up until press day. When you’re immersed in a book every day, you become blind to things that might be obvious to someone else.
That’s why it’s so useful to get fresh pairs of eyes on a book at the proof stage.
Pre-order My Antarctica in the USA from Amazon, Target, or ThriftBooks.
Pre-orders in the UK currently only from Amazon, but watch this space.
Corban Wilkin 