milky elephant is a group site for 3 artists, including eun-ha paek, who draws the best elephants ever. she also has her own site at www.eun-ha.com.		the site for nora krug, fantastic artist, illustrator, and animator.
	home of the the superdeluxe illustration work of yunmee kyong, who does beautiful gouache paintings and ink drawings.		the site for robbie guertin and dasha shishkin, and their crowd of awesome, strange, and sweet characters. robbie and dasha also make great prints and handmade books, among other things.
	home of the multi-talented nina frenkel, who does supercool paper cut-out illustrations, as well as great paintings, drawings, and flash animation.		the site for travis millard, who does beautiful comics, paintings, and illustration.
	ok, ok, so it's not exactly a website about illustration or design, but the drawings of the ugly dolls are just the best ever. plus the site is so much fun, and i am in love with these dolls.		the site for j otto siebold, illustration ruler of the universe.
	aya kakeda is a great silkscreen printer who does really nice 2-color print which you can see on her site. she also does fantastic illustrations and character designs.		the site for brian biggs, one of my favorite illustrators and comics artists. his graphic novel dear julia falls on my top 5 list of best comics.
	actus tragicus, an israeli collective of super-talented illustrators. they've published one large (and extremely cool) project per year for the past 6 years, all of which are worth checking out.		alternative comics!
	topshelf comix, publisher/distributor of many awesome books, including my favorite graphic novel ever, goodbye chunky rice.		first second books, a great new imprint of roaring brook press, publishes graphic novels by such fine folks as brian ralph, joan sfar, and greg cook. also, they'll be publishing my book - robot dreams - in 2007.
	ayumi horie is a super awesome potter. she makes amazing dishes and mugs and stuff with weird animal drawings on them. (can't imagine why i like them.) get one of your own!		this is a live webcam on . . . a chicken coop! it's not always up and running, but when it is, it's cool and funny and appropriate, and who doesn't want to spy on chickens?
	booklyn is an organization in greenpoint, brooklyn, which aims to promote, exhibit, distribute, and publish artist books. they are some pretty amazing folks, creating some pretty stunning books.		the center for cartoon studies is a 2-year program located in vermont. ccs has a fantastic lineup of teachers, including art spiegelman, seth, and craig thompson
	giant robot magazine covers cool aspects of asian and asian-american pop culture, including such useful subjects as toys, music, art, history, and, most importantly, snacks.		bust magazine ('the magazine for women with something to get off their chests') is just plain cool.
	the bark magazine is a cool magazine about dog culture, with great design + illustration. they have stuff like photo-essays on dog-shaped buildings from the 20's (pictured) or lucian freud's paintings of dogs.