Favourite style of art: Eclectic Operating System: Mac and Unix Favourite cartoon character: Gerty the Dinosaur Personal Quote: Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!
Favourite Visual Artist
Heinrich Kley
Favourite Movies
Casablanca
Favourite Writers
Robert Louis Stevenson
Tools of the Trade
keyboard, pen and ink, Photoshop, Maya
Other Interests
Java, Flex, surfing, wildflowers, The Desert, being published
Little Munch Downloads reach 2707 by ibnelson, journal
Little Munch Downloads reach 2707
With the third story in the Little Munch series now released on the iTunes App Store, our total downloads reach ever higher numbers. After years writing and illustrating unpublished children's story books, it's nice to see something I've worked on actually being READ - now in 75 countries. I bought an iPhone for my wife last Thursday at Walmart, as it was on super sale. Now, I finally have access to the App Store (my computer is too old to access the App Store) - the first thing I did was fire up the phone and search the App Store for Little Munch - and there he was in all his baby Black Angus bull glory... in all three of the Little Munch st
Little Munch story App now at 2406 downloads by ibnelson, journal
Little Munch story App now at 2406 downloads
91 downloads in the last 30 days - climbing steadily. The third story in the series, "Ho3w Little Munch got his Name" is now complete and will be released to the App Store soon. http://ibnelson.com/childrensBooks/munch3_16.jpg
2264 downloads and counting. Munch munches away by ibnelson, journal
2264 downloads and counting. Munch munches away
2264 downloads for Little Munch stories #1 and #2. We're not 'burning the house down' but I consider that many downloads a rousing success.... considering the years of trying to get published in the childrens storybook market. I spent YEARS trying to find an agent that would handle my work, spent YEARS knocking on doors and trying to get a foot in the door.
All I got was "polite refusals" or more often, just packets pf materials in the return mail. Pretty tough to keep one's courage up after years of rejection. It wasn't that I was a complete failure - far from it - I was published in the comics pages in the USA, Canada and England, and in n