Back to School Written on May 6, 2013, by Zack.

Growing up, I missed out on a lot of those traumatizing childhood experiences charitably described as “character-building.” Never broke a limb, never had braces, never broke a limb while struggling to detach my braces from the braces of my first kiss. Never saw Mac and Me. And I never had to ride the school bus. [...]

The Tortoise and the Facial Hair Written on August 13, 2012, by Zack.

Yowzers, the past few weeks have been BUSY at the Zack Rock Brothers Illustration & Novelty Beards factory. On the beard end, we’ve been prototyping something called “cloud bearding.” Need more beard to store food crumbs and condiment drippings in, but running low on face space? With cloud bearding, your mastication memories are automatically uploaded [...]

Heartpoon Written on June 25, 2012, by Zack.

“Nor when expandingly lifted by your subject, can you fail to trace out great whales in the starry heavens, and boats in pursuit of them; as when long filled with thoughts of war the Eastern nations saw armies locked in battle among the clouds. Thus at the North have I chased Leviathan round and round [...]

Bird brain Written on November 8, 2011, by Zack.

For the final Nancy Drew adventure I worked on at Her Interactive, The Captive Curse, I was tasked to create an illustration for a card game featuring made-up folk tale characters. FOR SOME REASON, they assigned me the character named “Professor Sparrow.” Go figure. Given I basically only had a name to work from, and [...]

A Christmas Cowol Written on December 29, 2009, by Zack.

Is it too late to wish everyone a Merry Christmas/Happy Hanukkah? Oh, okay. Happy Valentine’s Day, then. —————- Remember, you can always find me on Twitter and Etsy!