More than a year ago I made a few cryptic references to “the book illustration project whose name cannot be spoken yet,” and posted some really random-looking excerpts of stuff I’d been doing on spec. I didn’t want to say much because I knew I’d feel bad if the book pitch fell through... which it did, and I did. Still, the drawings were a lot of fun to do, and they still work pretty well just as decoration on the awesome website that the unsold book was based on: Jutta Degener’s Halfbakery.

So I’ve been putting the drawings there, on the pages for the inventions they’re about, and there are links to them on my art blog Error Bar—first batch here, more to follow. When you click on one of the thumbnails, it goes to the full drawing, and the “Back to...” link at the bottom left of that page goes to the text of the invention.

I’m thankful to Jutta for thinking of me for the project (and for giving back the art to do with as I please), and to the crazy funny people who wrote these things. It’d be great if some of this stuff made it into print somehow some day, but that’s life.