The Annotated Northwest Passage lands in June!

The collected, annotated hardcover edition of the first three volumes of Northwest Passage that was supposed to be released in April will now debut in early June, at Book Expo Canada. It's a beautiful book...designer Keith Wood has really knocked himself out putting the package together. Here's a sneak peak at the cover:

Old Illustrations, Part Deux

More work from the old portfolio site:

Funky retro travel labels, from a cover article in The National Post.

This advertisment for Wiley&Sons attempted to dress up some otherwise dry scientific manuals.

From the Toronto Star, for an article about about the trend toward "macho" cooking memoirs.



An ad for The Beaver Magazine (it's not dirty, it just sounds like it is...) which was running an article on the Beryl G incident, a fascinating but little-known Canadian murder case.

Shuster Awards Voting Over Soon

Voting for the 2007 Joe Shuster Awards ends May 11th. As some of you may have heard, I've once again been nominated in the category of Outstanding Canadian Cartoonist...so go vote, while there's still time!

Old Illustrations

I want this new site to be a constant update of whatever's coming off my drawing table at the time, but I also want it to serve the same purpose as my old portfolio site, by providing a record of what I've worked on in the past. To that end, here's some of the work that appeared on the old site, with new comments:


This was one of the first illustrations I did when I made the decision to leave my old job in the art department at a local communications company, back in 1999. It was meant to be an album cover for a friend's band, but they never did get around to actually recording it. It made a fine self-promotional piece, though.

I don't know what it is about this girl in the cafe (which I drew for Computer Source magazine a few years back,) but more clients than I could tell you have directed me to, "make it look like the girl in the cafe." Thus, she's been an almost constant presence in my portfolio.

One of the player characters I designed for the now-defunct PokerNOW.com.


The above two illustrations were done for Atlanta Magazine, one of my most loyal magazine clients.

Welcome to the New, Improved ScottChantler.com!

I'd wanted for a while now to replace my old site with something more dynamic, interactive, and easily updatable. This is it. The "blog" format will allow me to always keep new work and information front and centre. I'll post finished pieces, works-in-progress, updates on what I'm working on, press releases, information about public appearances, and anything else that my clients, friends, and fans might find useful. So watch this space!