This is a project that's been sitting in my portfolio for some time, but since it was officially released yesterday, I'm officially sharing it here. The Cop With The Pink Pistol is a tongue-in-cheek mystery novel set in NYC, my own stomping grounds. I had great fun designing the cover for it, and combining original illustrations with some hand-drawn text. The end result hopefully has sort of a James Bond action-y feel. You can find the just-released book here on Amazon.

I finally got around to updating my website with some new work. If you follow this blog, you've seen most of it already. But you may not have seen the illustrations I completed for another children's book from Sullivan Learning Systems.


This time, the topic was third grade chemistry. The top two drawings feature Molly the Molecule, in case you couldn't tell. And apparently sugar molecules look a lot like balloon animals. Who knew?

Things are busy, busy, busy here at Michele Enterprises. One of the companies I've had the pleasure of working for recently is Sullivan Learning Systems, a tutoring group based out of California that publishes their own children's books for reading comprehension. Below are just a few of the illustrations I completed for a book on the history of navigation.


It was a fun challenge to visually interpret some of the abstract concepts involved. And I have to admit, I learned a thing or two about navigation in the process. Did you know you can tell your latitude by measuring the angle of the north star over the horizon?


Oh, and thanks to everyone who came out to the Renegade Craft Fair this year! I had a blast, met some great people, and saw tons of inspiring work. I can't wait until the next one.