Illustrations by Peter Diamond.

Notes about the artist (from “About” page):

My first drawing lessons were at the kitchen table with my older brother. As I continued drawing I tried to compete with my father’s drawings of birds and my Grandmother’s effortless sketches of whatever she saw. I drew at every opportunity when I was little.

In high-school I had my first taste of illustration, when an ambitious friend of mine recruited me to draw posters for the punk rock shows he was organising. It was classic stuff: punks in leather jackets, devils and zombies, scenes of weirdness and bodily harm, and as many crazy typefaces as I could come up with. Since it was all rendered in scrappy black-and-white Xerox, I was forced to put down my pencils, take up inks and learn to draw clearly and boldly. Trying to catch the eyes and the imaginations of the local kids I began to learn the basics of visual communication.

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