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The Pottermore Insider has once again updated their blog, this time featuring artwork done by Pottermore users uploaded to Chapter Three, "The Letters from No One." View the different visual interpretations of the chapter at this link.

Artwork from Chapter Four will be posted next week on the blog, so it's not too late for beta users to submit their piece to Pottermore.

The newest issue of The Quibbler, Leaky's monthly publication "for all the news you won't find anywhere else," is now available for you to read and enjoy! You can see the PDF version here, or a zipped version here. To learn how to submit articles to The Quibbler, please go here.

Enjoy!

Bruce White paints black velvet paintings for your inner nerd.

I heart these so hard core! Thank you, Hannah F for sending these! The lip-gloss one, especially, made me grin. :)

Many hearts!

A quick doodle of Marv from Sin City. I wasn't a fan of the movie or the graphic novel. Although, Marv is a very cool character and the movie and book look really great. I love black and white stuff.

My Illustration tribute to a new awesome show being worked on at Cartoon Network Studios, a.k.a Adventure Time by Pendleton Ward.

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Check out the Adventure Time blog! (Updated everyday!)

From a "wild" weekend, I was inspired and did my own tribute to Maurice Sendak's "Where the Wild things Are." Hope you like! Roar!

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A sweet / fan art project started by Matt Cavanaugh, will feature Fist of the North Star characters as interpreted by Alex Eckman-Lawn, Eamon Dougherty, Matt, and yours truly. The project will premiere at Baltimore Comic Con this weekend. Enjoy!

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Snow Bunny Padme (private commission)


Sharon "Boomer" (private commission)


Buffy (private commission)
Some recent work I finished over the last few weeks, all marker and ink on 2.5x3.5 bristol cards. I've been really busy with some other doodles I'll post those soon! Hope you like Muppets!

The 4 sketch cards I submitted to the "Be a Super Hero for Babies" charity auction for March of Dimes were just listed on the ebay site! Check it out and place your bids...let's raise some money for those cute little babies!

"Luke Skywalker" personal sketch card

"Princess Leia" personal sketch card

"Chewbacca" personal sketch card

"Han Solo" personal sketch card

Good luck!

Here are two versions I did of my take on Darth Vader for Josh Frost's book "100 Ways to the Dark Side."

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Isn't that gorgeous? Salina aka I'maCowgirl at Girls Horse Club drew Charm. It's Charm's first piece of fan art and I'm in love with it. Look at the detail on the bridle and the relaxed expression on Charm's face.

Hugs to Salina for creating such beautiful art. Salina, you're super talented and I hope you keep drawing. Thank you so much for this--it means a lot! <3

Self-promo fan art for an art sale I'm in this weekend at a local gallery here in North Bay. Gotta love the Fette. After all, if the song "Fette's Vette" by MC Chris has taught us anything, it's that Bobba is one gangsta Mandalorian.

More here (including Power Girl + wallpapers): http://slatermark.blogspot.com

At this point in September, school is well underway and summer a lukewarm memory...

Hooray! The season of school visits :) To celebrate, here are several fine thank you notes that I received during the Humbolt County Author's Festival last October. THANK YOU!

Lots of great detail and some very careful coloring in all of those letters.

Percy never looked so good. Kind of a Stoic, James Dean thing goin' on...

Awesome colors!

I may have gotten a raw deal in the publisher department of my first book, but at least Percy and his fabulous pajamas still have a lot of fans! I love the bear drawings. Keep em' coming!

...and maybe someday I'll be able to make my case for taking this book to another publisher!

A little fan art that I did for JobGoblin, a comic by my friend Brian Fukushima. Apologies to Frank Frazetta.

Day 11 of the tour:

Tonight’s appearance at Books Inc (Opera Plaza) was fabulous. Lots of rabid, smart, enthusiastic Scott fans and passionate arguments about David/Zane. For the record I like Zane better than David but prefer Shay to either one of them.

The most wonderful part of the evening for me was meeting London, who’s a guy from Sacramento, who drove all the way to San Francisco (which is at least two hours!) to tell me how much he loves my books. Isn’t that awesome? Also turns out he’s a Sacramento Monarchs fan and has even met their big star Yolanda Griffiths. I was deeply impressed and we got to talk women’s hoops which always makes me happy.

Equally happy making was the lovely Liset who gave me a beautiful piece of fan art:

What a wonderful day. Thanks to Jennifer and Shannon for all your hard work. You guys are deeply splendiferous!

There’s lots more to say. And a tonne of your comments I want to respond to, but I’m completely knackered.

Tomorrow there are more events. Also we fly to Seattle.

Sleep now!

Writer and artist, Chris Howard, was so inspired by reading Magic or Madness he painted a portrait of Reason:

It amazes me that my books have inspired some folks to commit art. Makes me all teary!

I’m also made teary* by the awesomeness of the vast majority of librarians. The recent kerfuffle over a dog’s scrotum has led many to think that librarians in the US of A are all for banning books over a single word. This is emphatically not the case. The American Library Association has a whole division that goes to battle to protect intellectual freedom in the US of A. They’re the ones who bring us banned books week. They fight the good fight! They are all godesses. (Even the boy librarians.)

Teariness also comes over me as I contemplate all the kids’ books that have the word “scrotum” in them. (Mostly because if I had one I would cry if these things were done to said body part. I mean, OW!) Via Read Alert.