Last month, Reactor’s Bill Grigsby, Louis Fishauf and Tomio Nitto visited illustrator/artists Henrik Drescher and Wu Wing Yee in Dali, Yunnan, China. Aarmed with digital cameras, the intrepid travellers took a lot of pictures. When they got back, Louis exercised his considerable design talents to edit and create a slide show of their trip.

Bill Russell frequently draws and interviews people he finds interesting. Bill’s reportage begins with a pen, a sketchbook and plenty of conversation.

Recently Bill was embedded as a Civil War reporter artist at the Las Mariposas Civil War Days in Mariposa, California. Check out his activities with the California Civil War reenactors.

Since November of last year, Barbara Klunder has been focusing her sharp eye and witty words on the general stupidity she sees around her.

Check out her new blog, LITTLE RUDE RIDING HOOD.

Maurice Vellekoop hits newsstands with 6 different covers for the L.A. Times, Calendar Section, Sunday March 7th. The series centers around an actress on the day of the 82nd Academy Awards.

Bill Russell has always had a thing for cabbies. He used to interview and draw a different cab driver every month for several years for TODO magazine in San Francisco. He’s still riding around. Check out his blog here.

Five new pieces by Maurice on the decade’s hot topic.

For many years Carolyn has been creating wonderful sculptures as an extension of her illustrations.

This piece, titled “The Kiss Africain”, is featured in the erotic section of Blair Drawson’s new web site.

Over the last few years Rene has been quietly experimenting with laser cut steel. Working with James McLeod of The SteelWorks, Rene has just completed this piece titled, “Happy Go Luckies”. The piece was intended as a ‘shippable sculpture”. The six-piece sculpture comes apart and fits into a standard Fedex tube for shipping.

James Marsh’s artwork has recently been featured on the new Cornercard launched internationally from Visa and Mastercard. You can see a preview of James’ cards here.