Spring 2020 – Reimagining The Workplace

We have been asked to stay at home. As a small business owner, I have been working from home since the mid-90s. However, I could freely meet friends and clients for coffee, lunch, etc. I could go out for errands or recreation anytime. I was also teaching part-time, a...

Book publishing with Ingramspark and Createspace

The first book Frogs Are Green published was Frogs, Amphibians and Their Threatened Environment, and we used Createspace. Recently, we published our second book, Rainforest Frogs, and we used Ingramspark, and then realized it needed to be on Createspace also. Both...

Collaborative Fundraising in Jersey City

As we walked over to Pershing Field on a beautiful summer night and approached the big arch near the community center, a long white table with bouquets of flowers awaited us. The “Dinner in the Park” series. The guests started to arrive and take their...

Pete’s Mini Zine Fest 2015, Brooklyn, New York

Pete’s Mini Zine Fest is a trade show of home-made comics and graphic novels (or “zines”) held every summer in a charming little bar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn called “Pete’s Candy Store.” Originated and managed by authors and artists...

High-Tech and Low: Digitally Drawn versus Traditional Illustration

In the early 90s, as an art director at Macmillan Publishing, one of the book projects on my list was the 1st edition of The Macmillan Visual Dictionary. What made this book stand out at the time were the visually consistent digitally drawn illustrations. When I first...