#jon lawrence

Zoinks! The gang is back but this time, fiercer than ever. Join us for a night of camp, fun and comedy filled drag numbers inspired by the iconic cartoon, Scooby-Doo! Come dressed as your favorite character and have a chance of winning $50! Think you’re the biggest Scooby-Doo fan? Test your knowledge in our “Scooby-Doo” trivia. Because at the end of the night….. the monster will be unmasked!

05/02/2026 @ 5pm Komana Brewing in Cary, NC

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All together now! Who doesn’t love a good sing song! Especially when we’re young! My friend Jon Lawrence (also known as The Music Man!) has just released another collection of original songs for children – with illustrations by yours truly!

Here’s just a little taste of what’s inside…

Published by Eyrie Press, this is the second book by The Music Man, which even comes with a CD with recordings…

The Jack Newton Radio

After some fine tuning, the cover for ‘The Jack Newton Radio’ is complete, all the chapter headings have been inserted and I think it looks great! It has the right feeling of nostalgia and location, and with its limited colour palette. has a distinctive visual impact.

The full cover wraparound artworks looks like this:

The Jack Newton Radio can be purchased here. Go buy it now…

Back to the book cover…

After the last meeting with JonI was able to develop some of the details further and apply the design to the back and spine. But before that Jon was interested in seeing other scripts in place of the one used in the title. As I had already explored this before presenting this to him, I gathered several alternatives that I had tried and rejected. They were all selected for their natural flow and…

Judging a book by it’s cover

I recently mentioned a design project that required some research into vintage radiogram dials and I though I would share some images of the work in progress.

The book is by the author Jon Lawrence (I also designed the cover for his last book Bisha) and the official back cover blurb describes the novel thusly:

“Spirited septuagenarian Anwyn Jones, has left London for the tranquility of St David’s…

At the end of last year I had the pleasure of doing some work for my long time friend Jon Lawrence. I have quite done a bit of stuff for Jon over the years, some of which can be seen here, but this was a little different.

As you may have guessed by now, I designed the cover for his new novella ‘Bisha’ and produced a number of incidental illustrations that are spread throughout the text – here…