Erik Brooks's Blog, page 58

Presidential Polar Bear Post Card Project No. 102 - 3.8.16

Presidential Polar Bear Post Card Project No. 101 - 3.7.16

Back to work!

Presidential Polar Bear Post Card Project No. 100 - 3.4.16

100 Polar Bear Post Cards... and only about 215 more to go :) Join the fun and send the President one or two of your own!

Presidential Polar Bear Post Card Project No. 99 - 3.3.16

In the continued "Read Across America" theme for the week, yesterday was World Book Day . I think this works! Post Card No. 100 goes into the mail today and it will be live on the blog sometime Saturday morning. I mean, not that I have anything super special planned for my 100th card, but it IS the 100th and that certainly feels like a milestone :)

Harts Pass No. 289

A brand new feature for Harts Pass Comics -- It's "Tech Talk" with the Family Mustelidae!

Presidential Polar Bear Post Card Project No. 98 - 3.2.16

Presidential Polar Bear Post Card Project No. 97 - 3.1.16

Happy Birthday Dr. Suess! And from the Lorax, some fine words for the Post Card Project:
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not!"

Presidential Polar Bear Post Card Project No. 96 - 2.29.16

"Leap Day!"

Presidential Polar Bear Post Card No. 95 - 2.26.16

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL POLAR BEAR DAY!!!!!
Exciting for sure, and you can read all about it on the excellent Polar Bears International website. For the Post Card Project, what we have today are the five countries that are home to the world's 19 distinct polar bear populations. Some pretty great info over at PBI about which populations live on ice year round, which populations deal with rotating ice flow etc. Canada is home to 60% of the world's polar bears and thusly gets the larger flag :) Can you guess the other countries? Hint: Greenland, United States, Russia, and Norway (in no particular order).

Presidential Polar Bear Post Card Project No. 94 - 2.25.16

For my 94th post card, I'm taking a little trip down memory lane -- to 1994 and the year that I graduated from college. Carleton was a great place. A small liberal arts school in south central Minnesota. Not exactly polar bear territory, and maybe not the typical start for a children's book author/illustrator, but it was an experience of community and friendship, participation and expectation that I wouldn't trade for the world. I walked away on that fine June afternoon with a Studio Art degree and a teaching certificate. Nothing "rockstar" and glamorous for sure, but a solid foundation built on something tangible, connected, and considered. From there, the skies the limit!