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After 5 years on Blogger I'm moving this blog over to Tumblr. I've resisted long enough. I will keep this blog up so you can always come back here for some vintage Fuzzytown.<br />
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Thanks everybody for all the kind comments and Follows. I hope you will continue to follow me over at the other place.<br />
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<br />Z OHorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05810132438421043187noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1548199166059300531.post-12729771940271666482013-01-03T09:59:00.001-05:002013-01-03T09:59:39.111-05:00HAPPY NEW YEAR<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This was in my inbox this morning from some friends who recently moved back to Japan. An old painting of mine in good company. How awesome is that Astronaut Snoopy?Z OHorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05810132438421043187noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1548199166059300531.post-38418622948994554092012-12-11T10:02:00.000-05:002012-12-11T10:02:39.678-05:00UNIFORMITY<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Some spots for a Teaching Tolerance Magazine article on the myth that school uniforms are good for kids and their school environment.</div>
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<br />Z OHorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05810132438421043187noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1548199166059300531.post-63374494318118239472012-12-03T11:09:00.000-05:002012-12-03T11:09:28.872-05:00FUZZYTOWN ADVENT CALENDAR<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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When I was a kid, one of our favorite parts of the holiday season was the advent calendar. Our calendar was a beautiful handmade out of felt one by my Aunt Kathy. It was a Christmas tree with numbered pockets below that contained felt ornaments that you would hang on the tree for each day. </div>
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I was thinking about this and wanted to make one for Oskar and Teddy. But there is one problem, I can't sew. So instead I made one out of a small gift box from Urban Outfitters that I glued and taped match boxes inside to create little compartments.</div>
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Add some paint, and a trip to Five below to fill it with goodies and knick knacks and we are good to go. Mazel Tov!<br />
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Last month I had the privilege of reading Bernard to the awesome kids at P.S. 347 which is a school for the Deaf and Hearing Impaired as well as children with Deaf or Hearing Impaired parents.<br />
I was invited by the gracious Gary Wellbrook, teacher at P.S. 347, enthusiast of children's literature and unabashed Joseph Campbell fan. So right way we had two things in common. He posted a lot of nice things on his blog about me and other kids book authors and illustrators, you can check out at his blog <a href="http://www.followingyourbliss.blogspot.com/2012/11/a-visit-from-zachariah-ohora.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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One thing that Gary zeroed in on is my love for the work of Margret and H. A. Rey. Curious George is a big influence and I was reminded of another big influence over the holiday that I had forgotten about.Anyone remember these guys? The Woodsies?<br />
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My cousin got these from "Santa" in the early 80's and I remember pretty much frothing at the mouth in envy. I had had forgotten about these guys but after seeing them, I realized how much they made an imprint on my little brain back then. These guys are ALWAYS Fuzzy and Hopeful!Z OHorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05810132438421043187noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1548199166059300531.post-87529352079328835082012-11-05T10:53:00.000-05:002012-11-05T10:53:15.361-05:00AFTER THE FLOOD<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
In an affort to fight off cabin fever during the Frankenstorm, Oskar and I made these wallets out of painted paper and cellophane tape. </div>
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He and Teddy have become big TMNT fans so he wanted a Raphael wallet, Teddy's Michaelangelo wallet is in the works and in between, I made a Nilson and Amelia wallet, just cause.<br />
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The happy Nilsson wallet, for when he's nice and full of cash. But when its empty you get this guy.<br />
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It's been fun to see the guys getting into the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I was a little old for the real explosion of the Turtles in the 90's but I did get into the B+W comics from the late 80's. I even got to meet Eastman and Laird at one point. It was extra cool that they were from New Hampshire close to where I grew up. And they inspired me to start a short lived (thankfully) rip-off of TMNT and Sergio Aragones Groo the Wanderer that I called, ahem... Sly the Slaying Samurai Snail.</div>
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It's no secret that I love Richard Scarry. And when I was asked for a quote for the SOI Original Art Show that I was on the jury for, I gave them this.<br />
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2 years ago I managed to get a couple of these sets off Ebay for Teddy and Oskar, ok I admit and for me too! So much fun but man they are pricey!</div>
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A piece for the new Oxford American Music Issue. Cleveland Crochet and the Hill-Billy Ramblers. 50's era cajun garage-billy rock and roll. Real swamp music. At first, I was trying to get these guys all in the jaws of a giant croc, but then I thought it would be great to have a band on a Croc/Swamp tour boat. Thanks to Oskar for picking out the orange.<br />
These guys have like two songs but Sugar Bee was a major regional hit and even cracked the Billboard top 100.<br />
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As usual for these kind of assignments, except for some weirdo-obsessive music blogs there are hardly any photographs or other evidence these guys existed. These are the two reference photos I had to work with.<br />
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Received this comp up of the No Fits, Nilson! cover yesterday. Super excited to see this book come together. Also they asked me to give a story about my inspiration for the book in some form for the marketing team. So I sent this little comparsion chart.<br />
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The marketing team thought this was pretty funny and asked me to do a more kid friendly version for the catalogue. So I did this one.<br />
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<br />Z OHorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05810132438421043187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1548199166059300531.post-64168204681425011922012-10-03T09:44:00.001-04:002012-10-03T09:44:01.488-04:00FACELIFT<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Well...Finally finished updating the new website for <a href="http://zohora.com/">zohora.com</a>. If I didn't, the Design Police would come and give me a ticket. Now just waiting for the servers/internets to do their thing and bring it live in the next 24 hours or hopefully less...<br />
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Oskar doesn't really take naps anymore. But Teddy does, so now during "naptime" we do fun projects. Today was Old Wood Block sculpture day. And Oskar learned about Blue Cheese. He thinks Blue Cheese is about the funniest thing he's ever heard of.<br />
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Here he is hard at work, and its hard to tell from this picture but that "cheese shaped" wedge on the table is painted a light blue and that led to the discussion.<br />
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<br />Z OHorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05810132438421043187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1548199166059300531.post-73381272710123144872012-09-17T10:15:00.000-04:002012-09-17T10:15:39.183-04:00PHILLY FALL PREVIEWThe Philly Inquirer moved their HQ to a new location, the former Strawbridge & Clothier department store building. In a nod to their new home they wanted an illustration for the Fall Arts Preview that felt like a department store from back in the day.<br />
I'm super pleased with how this came out. It was a nice way to start a Sunday.<br />
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<br />Z OHorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05810132438421043187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1548199166059300531.post-14217083569133674672012-09-17T09:31:00.001-04:002012-09-17T09:31:31.266-04:00TEDDY TURNS THREE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Teddy turned three last week. To celebrate we went to Franklin Square and rode a lion and this weekend we had a party in our backyard complete with a homemade Lion ball game.<br />
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But the real hit was the ninja cupcakes that Lydia made.<br />
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This is a cover job I did over the summer for Clarion Books. The cover sketch they picked was the one I hoped they would and remained unchanged with the exception of some color changes to the type.<br />
This is the first YA cover I've done and when they sent me the MS I was hooked and read the whole thing overnight. I forgot how much fun the genre is, I enjoyed reading books like this when I was a little too young and I enjoyed it being a lot too old.<br />
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It's the story of a kid who is schizophrenic and stops taking his meds.<br />
He hears voices but a new one has emerged, a girl. Just as a real girl at school also starts to talk to him. Fascinating story by Edward Averett, looking forward to seeing this in person. Special thanks to SD Kerry Martin.<br />
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Below are the other sketches I sent in. Including a softer color palette version of the one they did pick.<br />
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And Lastly, the one wraparound idea with a little surprise/teaser.<br />
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<br />Z OHorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05810132438421043187noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1548199166059300531.post-70579634832211796812012-08-30T09:58:00.001-04:002012-08-30T09:58:41.512-04:00MTV LOVE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Nice review at MTV HIVE of the latest two LP covers I did for Cultures of Soul records. Flattering to be mentioned in the same breath as Mingering Mike. Stay tuned for a giveaway of these very same LP's. Go <a href="http://www.mtvhive.com/2012/08/29/evans-and-stewart-reissues-travel-to-an-alternate-rb-world/">here</a> to read the full review.</div>
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Dope Evans Pyramid tees from Cultures of Soul, super limited, get them <a href="http://www.culturesofsoul.bigcartel.com/product/evans-pyramid-album-cover-t-shirt">here</a>, while you can.</div>
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We are deep into the dog days of summer here and Oskar and I are starting (and hopefully finishing) projects left and right. Some of them are picture books in a day and others are slightly more esoteric.<br />
On Lydia's birthday we took a day trip to Lambertville without the little guys to sniff around some old junk and bookstores and Lydia found this great book of Paper airplanes.<br />
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It has designs for 20 planes that were winners in the first International Airplane Design competition. They are usually entered by engineers and aerodynamics types, often on graph or tracing paper. They are beautiful and some are quite intricate. Oskar and I are going to attempt to build everyone of them before summers end. We started with Plane #1 and Plane #14.<br />
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This past Wednesday I had the privilege of joining ten other amazing children's book professionals at the Society of Illustrators in New York to form the jury for the 2012 Original Art Show in October. With 550 books submitted we had our work cut out.
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Then it was on to Greenpoint for a surprise 40th/moving to LA party for Grady McFerrin (See photo below when he was 35) with the rest of the current and former Pencil Factory crew.</div>
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New album cover I finished last month for Cultures of Soul. This is an amazing underground, Atlanta disco record by Tommy Stewart. Can't wait to get my copy of this on wax.<br />
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I've done a few covers for these guys now and funnily enough a pattern is starting to emerge, last time it was Ancient Astronauts, this time the book of Genesis re-thought, lots of interesting myths and theories with a disco back beat.<br />
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Here are the labels I designed for this 2 record set.<br />
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I will be doing a giveaway or two when these couple records come out, so stay tuned. And apologies to people who won posters on the last giveaway, they are finally going out this week. Promise!</div>
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<br />Z OHorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05810132438421043187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1548199166059300531.post-73022112382674621672012-07-11T16:05:00.000-04:002012-07-11T16:05:00.074-04:00UGGH AUTHOR PHOTOS!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I always cringe when I'm asked for an author photo, especially since it's for kids picture books and you don't want a photo that looks too creepy or sinister. I usually go for pics of me where I'm not smiling, have sunglasses on and look quasi-criminal.<br />
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Thankfully my wife Lydia is a good photographer and after taking about 100 photos we go this one, and I like it as much as I'm able.<br />
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The best part is that the background is made of spreads from my new book before they got sent off to the publisher.Z OHorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05810132438421043187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1548199166059300531.post-22184470429902015242012-06-19T13:50:00.001-04:002012-06-19T13:50:42.078-04:00ANCHORS ASTRAY<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Need to catch up on posting some recent work, here is a job for the Improper Bostonian about a young persons experience on a cruise. I've never been on a cruise, so I learned about many cruise things. Like those towel animal things. And that you can buy a book on how to make those animals, but its only for sale on the ship!<br />
Below is a spot that shows those creepy little towel animal things.<br />
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Cards are inevitably the bits and pieces of new ideas kicking around my brain that are born as a result of the impending deadline of a holiday. Or sometimes they are just a picture of life at that moment.<br />
This is Lydia's Mother's Day card.<br />
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SWAP ME is how AWESOME comes out when Lydia types with her Blackberry. It has now replaced the word itself when something is truly awesome.<br />
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I love that Oskar made her a "really hard maze, with lava balls in it" which is, come to think of it, an apt description of parenthood.Z OHorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05810132438421043187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1548199166059300531.post-44677933724617589462012-05-10T10:20:00.000-04:002012-05-14T09:17:51.815-04:00PET MISHAPS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Still recovering from the PA One Book tour. Lots of amazing memories and photos to sort through. Also, just gettting back into the swing of working in the studio. This is a detail for a job for Cottage Life about Pet Mishaps on your family vacation.<br />
<br />Z OHorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05810132438421043187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1548199166059300531.post-72695862119082620062012-04-23T15:32:00.001-04:002012-05-14T09:19:10.263-04:00ANCIENT ASTRONAUTSI've been on the road a bit lately with the PA One Book tour and I'm posting most of those adventures over at the Stop Snoring, Bernard! <a href="http://www.stopsnoringbernard.com/">blog</a>. But I did manage to make this album cover for Cultures of Soul Records that will be out soon.<br />
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It's a collection of some left field underground Boston based disco from Evan's Pyramid.<br />
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Andre Evans is basically the man behind the group and he is interested in Ancient Astronauts theory. Which is pretty interesting stuff, you can read more of it on Wikipedia <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_astronauts">here</a>.<br />
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If you like your disco underground, dirt and cosmic you will dig this comp. When I get a couple copies on wax I will be giving one away so stay tuned.<br />
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