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Clay Hickson

@clayhickson

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Illustrator and publisher. Owner of Caboose Books and The Smudge.

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Halloween 2022. Liana and I made these masks in like, 2 hours and they’re still one the best costumes we’ve ever had by @clayhickson

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New shirt for the good people at @oaktownspice by @clayhickson

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10 days ago

The 2027 Caboose Calendar is available for pre-order! My brother @wileyhickson and I have been toiling away on a fresh batch of charming and bizarre new drawings for you. A whole year of fun for the entire family. Grab a copy while you can! Shop.Caboose-Books.com (Link in bio) by @clayhickson

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13 days ago

Happy to finally be in what is easily the best month of the year. 2027 Calendars are in the works. Stay tuned! by @clayhickson

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18 days ago

A good boy by @clayhickson

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20 days ago

I wrote and illustrated this compendium of common backyard “swarms” for the newest issue of Bugue. Grab a copy from @lianajegers ASAP because everything in her shop is 25% right now! by @clayhickson

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2 months ago

The corn was good but I’m so excited for summer to be over by @clayhickson

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2 months ago

What a dream to be able to make merch for my favorite local deli, @bellesbagels. I made the drawings and local drunk @jeremiahchiu did all the design work and made everything sing. by @clayhickson

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2 months ago

I made this poster for the @noahkahanmusic show at the Rose Bowl this past weekend. It was fun to work on and everything went smoothly, but swipe through to see all the terrible bootlegs being sold. Here’s what I think happened:
1. @kahanhq posted a video of the posters being printed.
2. People (or maybe just bots) took a screenshot of that video and started selling prints of the screenshot. They didn’t even bother to crop out the registration marks! And it seems like a lot of people are buying these shitty bootlegs. Total bummer! by @clayhickson

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@wileyhickson and I took matters into our own hands and made our own New Yorker cover by @clayhickson

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2 months ago

Beat up ol’ jalopy for yesterday’s crossword column in the @nytimes. Thanks to the great @vinnieneu for the art direction by @clayhickson

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3 months ago

For as long as I’ve been doing illustration work, I’ve wanted to illustrate a children’s book. So a few years ago, as a personal exercise, I decided to pick an existing story and illustrate it. I settled on that old folk-parody, “On Top of Spaghetti” because I like drawing food and it seemed like it would be fun to expand on. In my telling, the meatball rolls off the table, out the door, and goes on a cross-country journey - making friends, getting into trouble and enjoying life as a spicy, young meatball. Long story short, after a few weeks of living it up in the big city, the meatball gets lonely rolling around on his own. Just then an old lady in a deli sneezes and her matzo ball goes flying out the door. The meatball and matzo ball fall in love. The end.

I never did anything with it, but here are few excerpts (some unfinished). I thought I’d share them in case anyone out there happens to be a weirdo children’s book publisher. by @clayhickson

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