Jon Stich will be having a show of new paintings, opening is Friday March 2^nd from 6-9 pm at Rise Above Graphics / 4770 Telegraph / Oakland, CA. The show runs through March; in addition to originals and prints for sale, the gallery will be selling t-shirts of Jon’s “Mr. T-Rex”. (more)

Stephen Savage illustrates a review of "Girlchild" with felt appliqué, for the Boston Globe Book Review. (more)

Keith Negley illustrated today’s New York Times Letters to the Editor, which focused on promoting dialog between the parties in DC, instead of automatically fighting to block each other. (more)

Victo Ngai created this portrait of Cees Dert for the latest issue of aiCIO. Art direction from SooJin Buzelli was "Amsterdam theme" and “having options."  Since Mr. Dert once used different canals as an analogy for different investment choices, Victo knew it would be a good fit for this piece in many ways. (more)

Jamie Hogan celebrates February 29^th with this golden toad from her latest children’s book, A Warmer World, written by Caroline Arnold and now available in Theispot.com Bookstore. “Adapt or face extinction…” is well worth a leap! (more)

Ken Orvidas used a combination of color, imagery and symbolism to convey the violent despondence of suicide in this cover illustration for Current Psychiatry magazine. Guns remain the most common method of completed suicide in all age groups. (more)

Malin Rosenqvist gives us a sample of the cover and five illustrations she created on the topic of the internet and its future for German Impact Media. (more)

David Fullarton Just completed this illustration for an article entitled “Jim Allison’s Long and Winding Road,” for UC Berkeley’s California Magazine. Allison, the subject of both article and illustration, discovered a protein which attaches to T cells and went on to develop a drug to block its action. If the new drug did its job, it would free up the immune system to identify and attack cancerous cells, even those that have resisted chemotherapy. (more)

Janet Hamlin returns to Guantanamo Bay once again, to court report the Majid Khan arraignment tomorrow. “Today we took a tour of the camps where the detainees are held, and were allowed inside a recently vacated camp,” says Janet. (more)

Jennifer Taylor shares the latest in her series of strange and anthropomorphic characters, Skunk Chef, most likely prepping dinner for Frog Boss. (more)