Recommended Reading: "The Pirate Cruncher" by Jonny Duddle

Here at Cool Surface we're huge fans of the amazingly talented artist Jonny Duddle.    Jonny's painterly work exudes fun and is almost guaranteed to feature a monkey or two.  And lets face it, who doesn't love Monkeys?

We've just got our hands on a copy of Jonny's first ever storybook "The Pirate Cruncher" published by Templar and we're happy to say it's absolutely great.  The art is beautiful to look at and although we can't say anything about the story because we don't want to spoil its ending, it's very funny and well presented.  It's a great kids book and one a lot of adults will enjoy too so don't wait around, buy it now! 

Have fun,

David
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(Have an art book you'd like us to review?  Please get in touch and we'll see what we can do)

Creative Boom! Another week , another banner PLUS an interview!

If you head over to Creative Boom this week you'll see that we're sneakily taking over the site as not only have we designed their latest banner (pictured here) but I was also interviewed by our good friend Tigz Rice which you can read here. First Topless Robot and now Creative Boom.  Which website will we hijack next?

Have fun,

David

Competition winner: The new Topless Robot banner

The top site for "nerd news, humour and self-loathing" Topless robot held a competition to redesign their banner.  Being big fans of the site we felt compelled to enter and as the more astute of you may have guessed from the subject line, we won!  The best part is that the prize money can only be spent on geeky stuff which gives me the perfect excuse to buy some graphic novels and games!

Have fun,

David

10 years of Dazed Magazine covers: A Decade Drawn Out - "Dazed & Illustrated"

To celebrate Dazed magazine being around for a decade, the magazine picked out 10 of their favourite covers and asked artists to illustrate their own cover based on the existing covers.  Always wanting to be a little bit different, I managed to get 3 covers into one image.

Have fun,

David