I was born and raised in Temple, Texas. I attended college at Brown University, where I studied art, history, and art history; cartooned for the Brown Daily Herald; and took classes down College Hill at the Rhode Island School of Design. One RISD class was with author and illustrator David Macaulay; work in that class led to a collaboration with author Avi and editor Richard Jackson on what became the book City of Light, City of Dark. That work led to more illustrating, to writing as well as illustrating, to further learning in the form of an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York, and to ink and paint stains too numerous to count.

I've recently finished illustrating The Hinky-Pink, by Megan McDonald, which will be published this September. My next book as author and illustrator, Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11, will be published in the spring of 2009.

You can follow select further developments in near real time on the blog.