Kate the Great and the Middle C Music Shop

Friends, family, and fans of Kate!

It's been a long, long time since our last update. (Too darn long, that's what it's been!) We hope you're doing well.

Kate has been keeping us busy! Since late last year, Wayne and Jaime have been working hard to bring you her next big adventure.

And now, without further ado, we can FINALLY tell you what it is!

Wayne and Jaime have written and illustrated a picture book: Kate the Great and the Middle C Music Shop. It's available now on Amazon in two formats: as a Kindle Book and a paperback book.

You can read more about it on Kate's official website! 
http://www.katethegreatcomics.com

And you can read a preview on Amazon! 
Kindle Book: http://a.co/b2f6hRe 
Paperback book: http://a.co/e99fLWe

Let's talk more soon, okay? Drop us a line and tell us how you've been! (And if you like our book, let us know that, too!) 😀

Sketchbook Update (With Video!)

Jaime and I are super stoked to tell you -- we're going to be including a set of wallpapers with each digital sketchbook download!   

You can see a preview of the wallpapers below. They will consist of the same design (Kate and her friends on a rainy day!) in multiple colors.  

These wallpapers are an homage to an early textile design that was created by an Italian-American artist. That artist is the late, great Antonio Petruccelli. If you'd like to see some of his work (textile design pieces, as well as maps he made for National Geographic and covers for The New Yorker!), then click here. 

To see the piece that inspired us, keep scrolling down! Over eighty years after Petrucelli painted it, the design was on display at the Butler Institute of American Art, and it was made into a book cover. (Originally, it was used for pajamas!) 

WHAAAAAAA...?! 

What was that awesome thing you just watched? :)  

Why, it was my smartphone, of course! I equipped the lock screen with Jaime's rockin' pencils and the home screen with one of the finished wallpapers. (You'll be able to use the wallpapers on your tablets, your laptops, and your desktop computers, too!)

Pencils! I put 'em on my lockscreen.

The finished art. I made this the wallpaper on my smartphone's home screen.

These colors will also be included. (We're also thinking about doing one in gray and one in a very light orange. Thoughts?) 

 "Umbrellas" by Antonio Petruccelli. (The piece that inspired it all!)        © The Petruccelli Estate. All rights reserved. 

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