Scott Brundage was contacted by Sagoma Editore to do the front and back cover for their upcoming book "The Silence of Eggs" or "Il Silenzio Dell'uovo," a fictional biography of a 19th century poet obsessed with the silence of things. The sketches:

“They wanted to push the bizarrely humorous nature of a person stubbornly preoccupied with an egg's silence... as if the egg was holding out on the poet and the poet wasn't buying it,” says Scott. “Oh, and another goal was to have the feel of high class literature. But, you know... with a quiet egg.”  Of course, they picked:

“Before I could moan about the mind-numbing boredom of such a choice, the client sent a request for the back cover. He wanted the same egg, but now crushed by a frustrated poet's fist.”