SPOOKY SLEEPOVER For the last few months I’ve been working on Spooky Sleepover, a new book project with the writer Dave Scheidt. Dave and I first worked together on Aw Yeah Comics #8 and had such a good time that we decided to make an entire book together! SCARY STORIES Spooky Sleepover follows a group of…
One of my favorite year-round Halloween songs is “I Put a Spell on You” by Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, and made popular by Nina Simone and Creedence Clearwater Revival. The melody is great, the lyrics are catchy and the music is nice and gritty. I’ve worked on a few versions of “I Put a Spell on…
Enjoy this monster coloring page featuring a spooky werewolf! Click on the image to make it full-size, then print it out and color the Halloween scene. Be sure to send a photo of your finished picture to jess.smiley@gmail.com to see it showcased on this blog!
My newest book is out, just in time for Halloween! Rumpus on the Run: A Monster Look-n-Find Book is filled with spooky-fun and cutesy-quirky monsters in 10 full-color imaginative scenes. (You can think of the book as Where’s Waldo, but with family-friendly monsters.) I’ve had an absolute blast illustrating the book and coming up with critters,…
All month I’ve been running a contest, where I’ve offered 3 signed copies of Rumpus on the Run, as well as 3 digital PDFs. The results are in and I’m happy to announce our winners: Congratulations to our six winners, and keep watching this blog for more chances to win!
HALLOWEEN GIVEAWAY! Enter To Win A Signed Copy Of “Rumpus On The Run” My newest book comes out tomorrow, October 15, just in time for Halloween. Rumpus on the Run: A Monster Look-n-Find Book is filled with spooky-fun and cutesy-quirky monsters in 10 full-color imaginative scenes. (You can think of the book as Where’s Waldo, but with family-friendly monsters.)…
Sucker spiders are a fun, easy craft for children ages 4-8. Twist three pipe cleaners around the base of a sucker and poof!, you have a sucker spider. We like to glue googly eyes to our spiders, and slip ’em off of the sucker stick! Spider attack! MAKE A SPIDER & WIN A BOOK!…
CUT IT I’ve always loved potato stamps–they’re easy to make and fun to use. (I’ve even used variations of potato stamps in some of my drawings and paintings!) Here I’ve cut the edges of a potato to make a Rumpus body. I cut out a circle for the eye. PAINT IT We used green…