Cricket work (Buggy Business)
I love working with the folks at CRICKET Magazine! Bringing beautiful, challenging, fun reading to young people for generations! If I’m trying to sound fancy, I call myself Staff Illustrator, but honestly? I’m the bug artist. I draw the bugs.
As a child, I was not favored by bugs. The biting kind all preferred my sister. Once, I found a buzzing swarm of honeybees hanging low on a tree branch, in search of a new home with a new queen. Despite my obvious advantages of size and strength, they did not choose me.
The Cricket Country bugs didn’t pick me, either. I’m sure they were quite happy in the hands of Jean Gralley, who learned their little ways from their creator, the great Trina Schart Hyman. The Cricket folks didn’t even choose me, in the end. Yes, there was a long selection process with sample strips in b&w, and color. But they couldn’t decide… so they presented our strips to some kids, and the kids chose me! So. Thanks, kids!
P.S.: Ladybug wants you to know that although I am personal scribe to the Cricket bugs. I don’t own them. They own themselves, and all rights reserved, so there! Questions about using buggy likenesses for stickers or coffee cups or tattoos or WHATEVER should be directed to CRICKET.
Ladybug (and Cricket) thank you kindly.