Category: Spiderwick Stuff
September 18, 2009
I am home for a spell before Holly and I head back out next week to continue our “Farewell Tour” of the Spiderwick series. A BIG thanks to everyone who came out and made the west coast events so memorable. While on the road, and to our delight, we spied The Completely Fantastical Edition in …
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September 7, 2009
…and here’s a reminder of the dates for leg 1 (including California, Oregon, Washington and Minnesota): SPIDERWICK FAREWELL TOUR Wednesday, September 9 @ 7:00 PM MYSTERIOUS GALAXY BOOKS 7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd. #302 San Diego, CA 92111 Thursday, September 10 @ 7:00 PM BARNES & NOBLE 7881 Edinger Avenue Huntington Beach, CA 92647 Saturday, September …
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September 6, 2009
August 17, 2009
Chapter One IN WHICH Nick and Jules Get Their Heads Examined Nicholas Vargas had imagined a panoply of terrible punishments his dad might impose after he’d stayed out all night with Jules and Laurie. He’d imagined being grounded forever. He’d imagined all future video games and game systems confiscated. He’d imagined being yelled at every …
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August 6, 2009
This is it! The last Spiderwick tour Holly and I will likely do for a looong time! I hope we see you there! SPIDERWICK FINAL TOUR Wednesday, September 9 @ 7:00 PM MYSTERIOUS GALAXY BOOKS 7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd. #302 San Diego, CA 92111 Thursday, September 10 @ 7:00 PM BARNES & NOBLE 7881 Edinger …
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July 17, 2009
I don’t recall if I’ve mentioned the fact that my mom was a doll-maker when I was a kid. She made all sorts of dolls and puppets out of all sorts of materials. Sometimes she made them for us DiTerlizzi kids, other times she gave them to friends, family and even sold some to local …
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May 22, 2009
Nicolas has given us a wonderful glimpse into his own Arthur Spiderwick-inspired field guide to the faerie world. Its awesome for me to see fans collecting data on the elusive invisible world. I especially love the page on goblins where he’s included real goblin tooth items, including rose thorns! I wish I had thought of …
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May 1, 2009
This week I did, in fact, sketch a whole lot more. However, I found myself working on characters and scenes from my new novel…and I am not quite ready to unveil that world just yet…so you’ll have to wait a bit before I share those sketches. But I broke out the pen and inks (and …
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April 18, 2009
This week I enter the home stretch on my journey of searching for the strongest jacket image to represent the new package design for the first-ever collection of The Spiderwick Chronicles books. After viewing John Lind’s design for the Spiderwick exhibit program from last year, I began exploring a simple illustration from the book that …
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April 10, 2009
My quest for a successful cover to the upcoming Spiderwick collection continues with a brief exploration into Art Nouveau. The Spiderwick art is actually influenced by this artistic movement, especially the notion of nature’s spirit (the fey-folk) twisting its writhing tendrils around mankind. These two explorations were my attempt at making Spiderwick feel more classic …
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March 23, 2009
I thought it would be fun to share a little bit of process that I usually don’t discuss much, which is the design work that goes into a book’s jacket. As an illustrator, my focus is often set on creating a quintessential image to capture the story within. Oftentimes, good design and typography can do …
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March 18, 2009
I am excited to unveil the cover to the third, and final, Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles book. This is also the grand finale to my favorite faerie series. This arrangement, of a character facing off with another, is a composition I’ve used throughout all of the Spiderwick books starting with book 1. I thought it …
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March 6, 2009
Happy Friday everyone – I hope you all had a great week. I received some wonderful scans, via facebook, from a proud mother and her two children living in Spain. Both kids love to draw and enjoy the Spiderwick books. First up, eight-year old Leo’s take on a brownie: Next up, twelve-year Cristina’s rendition of …
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February 26, 2009
Angela found this cool post on designer, M.S. Corley’s blog. Here, along with Series of Unfortunate Events and Harry Potter, he re-imagines the Spiderwick series as it could have looked in the style of Penguin’s classics line from the 1950’s and 60’s. Here’s his take on Wrath of Mulgarath: Pretty neat, huh? I LOVE seeing …
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January 25, 2009
My facebook inbox received a great note from some fans in Italy and pic of this awesome li’l ceramic sculpt of the Spiderwick “Knocker”, check it out: The sculpt was done by a fella named Federico. His friend, Elisabetta, did the paint job on it. Elisabetta mentioned being a fan of mine since seeing “Catlord” …
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January 8, 2009
Happy 2009! I hope everyone is having a great new year so far. FFA ’09 was certainly started off in a BIG way for us when these images arrived in Angela’s inbox: Troy sculpted this one-of-a-kind Spiderwick Leprechaun for his daughter for Christmas(!) He says: “My daughter and I are both huge fans and I …
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November 7, 2008
We just received this awesome pic from Maya, of her amazing Halloween costume as Mallory from the cover of the fourth Spiderwick book! Maya draws magical creatures all the time and also wants to be a professional artist when she gets older. Kudos to Maya and here mom, Leslie, for making one of the best …
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October 27, 2008
I have been meaning to post this little bit of trivia since A Giant Problem came out last month, but have been so darn busy…anyways, here it ’tis. I hide all kinds of stuff in the illustrations of my books. Sometimes its characters from other books – for instance, has anyone spotted Hogsqueal in Kenny …
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September 19, 2008
This week we received quite a treat: this amazing Spiderwick manga by our old friend Annie! We try to feature young artists only once, (so that everyone gets a chance), but this was just so cool, such a labor of love, that we couldn’t keep it to ourselves! It would be great to post all …
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September 15, 2008
The latest installment of Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles, A Giant Problem, is due out in stores tomorrow. You can find it in a store near you, or you can try Amazon (where you can buy this AND Kenny and the Dragon at a reduced price) or Barnes & Noble. For our New York and New …
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July 21, 2008
Holly and I will be doing a special event on September 16th, for the release of the next Beyond the Spiderwick book, A Giant Problem. Below are the details, I hope we see you there! Special SPIDERWICK EVENT with Holly Black! Tuesday, September 16th 6:00 PM BOOK WORLD Essex Mall 895 Bloomfield Avenue West Caldwell, …
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July 5, 2008
I hope everyone here in the states had a great Fourth of July yesterday. I was so busy eating hot dogs and playing with sparklers, that I forgot about posting our runner ups for the DVD Drawin’ Contest, so here they are! As with our winners, the judges (myself, Ang and my assistant Will) looked …
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June 27, 2008
Once again THANK YOU all for entering on such a short notice. The competition was stiff with over 70 entries from all over the world! Angela and I judged on what wowed us through creativity, originality and technical skill. We had entries from all age ranges – from pre-schoolers to professional artists – and we …
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June 3, 2008
A couple of years ago, I was down in South Florida showing Holly Black some of the natural areas that I knew very well as a kid growing up. I took her to the rocky shore of Blowing Rocks Preserve and the scrubby palmetto woods of Jonathon Dickinson State Park. Our purpose was to find …
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April 18, 2008
We got a lot of great art this week, but what stood out most were these three drawings of my favorite hob by Caleb, Christopher, and David. We thought it would be fun to see them up together, it’s always interesting to see different peoples take on the same character. Thanks to everyone who sent …
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