This spread for Mental floss is pretty much my dream assignment. The piece is a history of different scientific (and not so scientific) attempts to control weather over the last century or two. A lot of the stories end (predictably) in failure, but there were some successes too that I'd never heard of. A standout: in 1915 San Diego is experiencing an epic drought and commissions chemist Charles Hatfield to use his science know-how to bring the rain. A month later the city was flooded (Dam bursting, trolley-cars floating down the street flooded) and the city sues Hatfield for damages. (Don't hold me to those specifics. I'm just an illustrator.) Big thanks to Winslow Taft for the great assignment!

This was a fun one for the Washington post. This was for a story about how it's better to plan for a market downturn when your investments are still showing good returns (something we can all relate to no doubt.) I spent about as long on the checkered shirt as I did on the rest of the illustration, and now that I'm looking at it I am seeing some adjustments I'd like to make, but I'll just have to save that nit picking for the next time. Thanks to Christian Font for the assignment!

This little series of adventure illos were commissioned for the latest issue of Climbing Magazine. It might sound strange (probably not though if you are spending a lot of time in a studio) but I actually feel a little bit healthier after drawing hiking. I might have to make this a part of my studio health regimine. Thanks to Claire Eckstrom for the great assignment!

A couple of spots for a new client, Entrepreneur Magazine. (One of the upsides of this job was learning how to spell entrepreneur without my spell check going off.) The first one is fairly straight forward, the second is a literal illustration of the expression "Goat Rodeo" (new to me) which means, if I'm not mistaken, a poorly run meeting. (Now you can impress your friends that work in offices!) Thanks to Evelyn Good for the assignment.

A quick spot for Mofo Magazine, for a story on new Apps that allow you to do banking on the go. Thanks to Patrick Mitchell for the assignment!

And finally, from the way-back file, this was a story opener that slipped through the cracks of my fail safe blogging system back in May. A great assignment where I could actually draw absolutely anything I wanted, as long as it was all embedded in a cross section of Seattle bedrock. (Now you know what I would draw if I could draw anything.) This was for a story about the challenge of developing the city while protecting sites of potential archeological importance. (This was also a plot line in The Killing, if memory serves.) Thanks to Sara D'Eugenio for the assignment!