Well, my work with Corey Doctorow’s novel Makers is finally done. The final illustration posted on the Friday before Kato arrived, and I’m sorry to say I was too distracted in the wake of giving birth to truly appreciate (and celebrate) the end of the very long and taxing process (in fact, the creative delivery was much longer and more taxing than the human delivery, though the recovery time was much quicker).

Yesterday, the final version of the online Tile Game went live – click on “Play the Full Game” in the graphic below if you would like to see all 81 tiles together in all their glory. Our friends over at Malloc Media put together this Flash version, and I have to say, it’s more than a little addictive once you start shuffling and rotating everything around. Have at it:

In related news, we’ve been scrambling to put together a print version of the game – a deck of 81 cards that can be mixed and matched as you please. Subscribers will be receiving these at some point in the spring (we hope) and we’ll also be taking them along to the various shows we attend. Oh, and I guess we’ll sell them here, too, of course. The cards are being printed and packaged in China, which is why we needed to get them out the door this far in advance – plus, I was hoping to have them out of my hands before Kato arrived. And that is what I was doing frantically at 1:20am last Monday after contractions started… prepping the files and sending them. Matthew can’t be trusted with that sort of thing.

And, apparently, neither can I, since I have had to redo them 3 times now. BUT – the latest revisions seem to be the last (fingers crossed…) and I’ve sent them off and a great weight has lifted from my shoulders. I can now focus my full attention on being a milk machine. Eww.