We’ve each now got our own websites dedicated to our particular work:

stevenweinbergstudio.com

caseyscieszka.com

Because maintaining telephoneandsoup.com, locallanguageliteracy.org, allthewaytotimbuktu.com, and shittykitty.biz just simply wasn’t enough!

A new magazine hits the stands today: National Animalgraphic!

It’s what came out of a conversation Steven and I were having over the weekend about what would happen if a National Geographic reporter stumbled upon animals from famous kids books doing their thing then lept to conclusions. Steven drew them and I came up with the articles. Many more to come!

Israeli chemist Dan Shechtman just won this year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry for his discovery of crazy tenfold symmetry in “quasicrystals” found in aluminum and manganese. Steven woke me up this morning with this article saying, “How much does this look exactly like zellij?!” Zellij being the traditional Moroccan tiling we’ve come to love.

So much! Check it out: (The quasicrystal formation is on the top left.)

So cool to think we might be hardwired to make this kind of stuff… Read the NY Times article about him here.

This summer we entered a t-shirt design contest at our favorite San Francisco bar (where Shitty Kitty was born!), Shotwell’s– and we won! Here’s the design that goes on a classic white tee:

You can pick up your very own next time you swing by Shotwell’s for a brew. Make sure to say hi to the bar owners Dave and Tom for us!

You can also order the shirt online here from the good folks at Taverntees, but recommend stil going and saying hi to Dave and Tom for us.

My brother Jake has never been much of a reader. Or a wimpy kid. Which are two of the reason he has never cracked open a copy of Jeff Kinney’s Diary of A Wimpy Kid.

But yesterday when Steven and I we talking about the series Jake said, “Maybe I would have read Diary of Manly Kid.” And thus it was born.

We’re putting up a whole diary on diaryofamanlykid.tumblr.com entry by entry. All you wimps, come back for advice! All you manly kids, read it and give each other high fives.

P.S. If you want guns like Jake you can have ‘em! He’s a personal trainer. Check out his site here.

People always ask us where we’re traveling to next. And now we have an answer…

COLOMBIA!

We can already picture ourselves in the streets of Cartegena. Literally.

So send us your must-sees and the contact info of all of your Colombian friends!

Vamos Gigantes!

(Sorry– my only Spanish lessons to date took place in the streets of San Francisco.)

Last year we won Brooklyn’s own Sixpoint Brewery design contest with our Mr. Sixpoint design.

This year’s theme is “Beer Is Culture”. So we decided to go with a very classic version of culture: Ancient Egypt. Et voila!

In order to win the contest our design needs to have the most “Likes” within Sixpoint’s Facebook album. Please help us out! Here’s how you go about doing it:

Step 1: Like Sixpoint of Facebook!

Step 2: Like our design!

Step 3: Tell all of your friends to do it too!

Thanks for the support all you beer guzzlers.

Thank you so much to WORD and to everyone who came out! We’ve got more pics and stories on the book’s website here.

To Timbuktu (Roaring Brook Press 2011)

To Timbuktu is Casey and Steven’s first book. Written by Casey, illustrated by Steven it tells the story of their first two years out of college spent living in Asia and West Africa.

Here’s the book’s trailer:

And some reviews:

Go to allthewayToTimbuktu.com for more news, photos, reviews, event info, comics and fun stuff.

You can keep up with “To Timbuktu” on Facebook here.

Spaceheadz (Simon & Schuster, 2010)

Casey and Steven are also the Digital Team for Jon Scieszka’s middle grade series Spaceheadz. (Yup, same Scieszka.) It’s about a couple of aliens from the planet Spacheadz who have disguised themselves as two 5th graders and a class hamster. No, they are not especially intelligent. It doesn’t help that they’ve learned everything they know about Earth from TV and advertising.

And essential part of the spirit of the series is media literacy. Casey and Steven’s job is to develop the online world of all the characters. They maintain Major Fluffy’s blog and Twitter account, a Facebook profile, Flickr and YouTube accounts for the characters, stock their teacher’s website with fake 5th grade art, manage all the madness that is spaceheadz.com, and repeatedly laugh themselves stupid while putting up photos and videos on the Anti-Alien Agency website.

Woohoo! Next Tuesday, come on by WORD in Greenpoint for our NYC LAUNCH PARTY of To Timbuktu!

You + us + books + all your friends = GOOD TIMES AT OUR BOOK LAUNCH!

Official Facebook invite here.