Big thanks to The Grove primary school in Totnes for hosting our Reeve & McIntyre Adventuremice visit today! Here's teacher Mrs John (Shanaz John) who looked after us (thanks, Shanaz!), and drew this rather splendid picture of Pedro along with us. My co-author Philip Reeve took this picture of me warming up my drawing skills with a picture of Fledermaus on the flipchart before we started the all-school assembly. If any of the children (or staff, or parents) would like to learn how to draw more characters, check out our Adventuremice.com website, or my Jabberworks website! I was a bi ..read more

There's always a strange transition time between when we're hard at work making our books - I've been painting long hours at my desk in the studio to meet a print deadline for Adventuremice Book 5 - and when we take the SHOW ON THE ROAD and meet the people who actually read our books! So all but the back cover and final edits of that book are finished, but Book 4 - Adventuremice: Mice on the Moon - has arrived back from the printer all shiny and lovely for our March 7th launch date! But we're already on the road; this morning we presented Adventuremice to a wonderful audience at Exeter's 'WHA ..read more

Big thanks to the Reeve family for hosting Stuart and me again this Christmas! We don't stay as long as we used to, since we live just down the road now, but we love seeing them, and watching Frodo the poodle go nuts, ripping up all the discarded giftwrap. Let's see, for New Year's Resolutions, aside from my regular work, I'm hoping to: * Use my new Pooki Press for the first time with some linocut prints * Sand down and paint some of the wooden pieces I've been hoarding this year * Draw some more Devon community scenes * Possibly come up with some more booklets/zines in the same vein as the ..read more

I'm so excited to say that this film made by Philip Reeve and Sarah Reeve - GWENEVERE - is now available to watch online!! Here's the poster I made for it: Gwenevere had screenings at Chagford Film Fest, The Bookery in Crediton and at Torquay Museum, and now you can watch it here on YouTube: I was joking with Philip about doing a commentary edition, Gwenevere: the Caterer's Cut, or even Gwenevere: the Annoying Version, where you'd get me piping up every few seconds to say, 'Hey, those are my shields!', 'I made that little woodland figure thingy!', 'There's Alan Lee!', etc. Making the fi ..read more

I drew this a week or so ago and just remembered to post it! Here's an addition to my sketchbook pictures of Devon community gatherings. The vicar noted that he liked the way my drawings included lots of different elements that couldn't be captured in a single photo ..read more

Dartmoor sketchbook: it's the Moorland Merrymakers panto! Great show this year, everyone! (Camelot - The Panto, written by Ben Crocker, produced by Tony Deeble at Leusdon Memorial Hall) - read Philip Reeve's blog about it here ..read more

Big thanks to the BookTastic BookFest team in Bedford for hosting a big Adventuremice stage event last weekend! Here you can see the view to the stage at Bedford Academy as the hall began to fill: Photo tweeted by @MariaFadget My co-author Philip Reeve and I had performed in July for BookTastic for the wider festival and they'd had such good feedback - children with their noses in books as soon as they left the auditorium, quiet on buses as children kept reading - that organiser Rachael Rogan invited us back again for a one-off festival event! Like last time, festival photographer Chiara ..read more

Yeo, Yeovil! Thanks for making our visit so much fun! Today's audience at Yeovil Literary Festival were brimming with good ideas and drawing suggestions for my co-author Philip Reeve and me: Photo by Ali Skittrell Big thanks to everyone who came along and drew with us! Photo by Ali Skittrell Here are two very fine Pedro drawings by Georgia and Pippa: Anya had prepared a drawing to give to us, showing the Adventuremice in seasonal outfits: Here's an ace drawing of Ivy (the Adventuremice engineer), by Aneka: Thank you, Liz Pike, for introducing our event! And Marcus Bishop ..read more

This month I've been away a lot, doing school visits and book festival events, and I haven't been able to keep on top of answering my emails, they've been piling up in my Inbox. I've also had loads of direct messages on all the different social media plaforms I use, many from people who would like to learn more about illustration or about getting published, and I can't deal with them all. Apologies! One thing I definitely can't do is preview people's unpublished work, partly because it leaves me open to claims of plagarism if I'm doing something similar. And I've found over time that if I d ..read more

This week Reeve & McIntyre took the Eurostar to take part in this year's Book Festival hosted by the British School of Brussels. It was mega! There were visiting authors and artists all week, but I got to spend time with this group: Sarah Crossan, Karl Nova, Momoko Abe, Philip Reeve and Julian Sedgwick. Julian referred to it as 'Author Camp', and while we weren't roughing it in any way (no sleeping bags or having to light fires with wet sticks), it really was a lot of fun getting to hang out with our colleagues all together! I was invited to the Book Festival before Covid lockdown, and ..read more