Zoe is such a little bookworm. She found War and Peace a bit dry and long winded, but is a big fan of Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb.

A wonderful Potter by the name of Jackie Seaton has a yearly fundraiser named "Empty Bowls". The money raised goes towards child poverty. Read more www.emptybowls.ca

The interview with Just One More Book is back online. Check it out here.

http://www.justonemorebook.com/2007/05/21/interview-with-ben-hodson/

Music is a big inspiration for me and I love drawing while listening to it. Here are some music-inspired sketches.

Here's the link to The Blue Spruce Award...

http://www.accessola.com/forest2008/bluespruce/jeffrey.html

Check out the other books nominated. Wow. What a great collection.

Okay, a couple of cool things here...

Jeffrey and Sloth (written by Kari-Lynn Winters) has just been nominated for

The Blue Spruce Award! Yahoo!

I'm the feature illustrator this month at Orca Book Publishers.

http://www.orcabook.com/client/client_pages/contributors/illustrators/bhodson.cfm

At 5 weeks, Zoe already had a favorite book!


And at 8 weeks she was an avid reader!! (Alright, I'm exaggerating a little...but proud fathers are allowed to, especially when they are so sleep deprived.)

Okay, I've been very bad with keeping up with this blog lately, but I've been a bit distracted. Zoe Makaela Hodson was born on August 30. She is so adorable!!

My latest book has just been released! Yahoo! It was a joint effort with the amazing activist/musician Michael Franti (www.spearheadvibrations.com). What I Be was published under Michael's publishing company Stay Human Books and is available through his website. See more of the book at www.whatibe.org!

Big Brother is watching!!

I was raised on The Beatles and I think they are the best band there ever was.

Nothing can strike fear in your heart like a banana uprising!

A little 4 panel stream of conciousness about what God dreams.

Some drawings from the new sketchbook! It's a lovely moleskine notebook with beautiful paper...seems almost a shame to spoil such nice paper, but it holds the ink so well that I can't resist!

This drawing was the last page in the sketchbook and I finished it in South Africa just before the show. A fitting end to an amazing project and since being home I've already started another sketchbook. (when I should be working!!) I'm addicted.

Some sketchbook goodies!

And yet more fun from the sketchbook!