Craig

Craig Yoe, the internationally reknowned cartoonist, designer and author, runs Yoe! Studio with Italian Design Queen Clizia Gussoni. The firm is housed in a mountaintop castle overlooking the Hudson River, 45 minutes from New York City. Craig has created acclaimed products and promotions from MTV station ID spots to Disney theme park attractions. Yoe has six patents for toy inventions. Before founding Yoe! Studio, Craig was Creative Director/Vice President Genral Manager of Jim Henson's Muppets and a Creative Director at Nickelodeon.Dubbed "Dr. Seuss on acid!" by Animation Magazine, Craig Yoe is a wildly entertaining speaker on creativity. His worldwide travels as a lecturer have taken him from to Italy, France, Argentina, South Africa, Australia, and Singapore. Closer to home, he teaches for the Master's program at Syracuse University and at other institutions of higher learning. The author has curated fine art exhibits at museums from Japan to New York.Among Craig's more than fifteen books are the lauded publication "The Art of Mickey Mouse" [with an introduction by John Updike], one of Time magazine's 'Books of the Year,' and "Weird But True Toon Factoids!" Yoe! Studio has won numerous awards including the Gold Metal from the Society of Illustrators, two Addys, the Mobius and the Will Eisner Comics Industry Award.For more information on Yoe! Studio go to www.yoe.com.[See how professional?! Eh? EH?]MODERN ARF ...What in blazes is it? Arf is a groundbreaking series of books exploring the unholy marriage of art and comics in a stunning array of rare masterpieces, guaranteed to make you "pop-eyed!" The first volume, titled Modern Arf, is available now. Get yourself a copy with an exclusive, signed bookplate from http://www.budplant.comARF MUSEUM Arf's second tome in a series of six is called Arf Museum. Feast your eyes over twelve 100-years-old, never-before-published paintings of the first licensed character, the Yellow Kid! In Arf Museum's pages you will encounter Art Spiegelman, Pablo Picasso, Bettie Page, and many more! This extraordinary book of historic proportions is on its way to bookstores nationwide.