Book 1, Arizona Book 2, California
Alley Cat, 4th Of July Drawing, The Family™, Seven Elephant, The Beatles Collector, Tracks In Wax, Psychic Coffee, Dabashoo, Eetwoo, Breakfast With Idiots, Beverly Hills 90210

 

Beverly Hills 90210, Paul McCartney Art Club, Rock N Roll Coloring Books, Emily The Strange, Oopsy Daisy, Boyz On Da Run, Brian & Emily, Smokey’s Tangle, Temescal Now, Cats Now

 

Book 1, Arizona:
Alley Cat, 4th Of July Drawing, The Family™, Seven Elephant, The Beatles Collector, Tracks In Wax, Psychic Coffee, Dabashoo, Eetwoo, Breakfast With Idiots, Beverly Hills 90210

Book 2, California:
Beverly Hills 90210, Paul McCartney Art Club, Rock N Roll Coloring Books, Emily The Strange, Oopsy Daisy, Boyz On Da Run, Brian & Emily, Smokey’s Tangle, Temescal Now, Cats Now

Drawings 2022-2025

This Is How I Draw Cats  Now Strange Cat Art School
Animated Gifs Moving Words

Animated Gifs Tortured Scrolls

Goth Cat Goes To The Store

Existential Night Flyers Zine

This Is How AI Draw Cats Now Zine

CN24 03 Cats Now 2 Zine

CN24 02 Cats Now 1 Zine

CN25 07 Emily Strange Mashups

CN25 06 Weird Drawings of Emily The Strange

CN25 06 Stranger

CN25 04 Emily Gets A Job Zine

CN24 01 Professor Space Cat Zine

DRAWINGS & ANIMATIONS (2023-2025)

 

Brian Gets A Job

 

Calling

Row 1, Cell 1 Row 1, Cell 2
Row 2, Cell 1 Row 2, Cell 2

Books

Project Name:
Strange Cat Art School
Est. 2023
Oakland, CA
Description:
An interdimensional art institute run by Professor Space Cat.
Assignments are sold to aliens. Students relieved of having to store their student art.
Formats:
Formats: print + digital
Media:
iPad

Projects

Project Name:
Strange Cat Art School
Est. 2023
Oakland, CA
Description:
Learning how to draw Emily The Strange again.
Formats:
print + digital
Media:
iPad + Apple Pencil

Rock n Roll Coloring Books

Project Name:
Rock n Roll Coloring Books
Est. 1995
San Francisco, CA
Description:

A series of satirical black-and-white mini coloring books from the late ’90s that reimagine rock legends in absurd, mundane, and historically offbeat scenarios—using drawn faces combined with clipart bodies in a deadpan collage format.

Press:
SF Weekly
Media:
Comics, zines, photocopier

Titles

Project
Goth Cat
Theme
Visual storytelling without dialogue. Silent, existential, and subculturally aware.
Medium
Ink drawings, silent comics, zines
Project
This Is How I Draw Cats Now
Theme
Art-school parody. Formal rules meet chaotic drawing assignments.
Medium
Ballpoint, Apple Pencil, index cards

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Rock N Roll Coloring Books

Paul McCartney Songs 4/95

Paul McCartney’s Hair 7/95 

Paul McCartneys Right Eye 7/95 

Paul McCartney Plays Sports 10/96

1997

4/21 The Rutles Exercise Coloring Book

5/6 Grateful Dead California Gold Rush Coloring Book 

5/29 The Residents Medieval Coloring Book

7/13 Frank Zappa Does Sports Coloring Book

10/2 Queen Baby Coloring Book 

10/9 Yoko Ono Drives Trucks Coloring Book 

1999

2/12 The Baatles: Baa Ewe Sheep Is Lamb

3/2 Earn Enough For Us: XTC Supplementing Their Income, 1993-1998

8/24 Morrissey Gets a Job

11/2 This Is My Book By David Byrne by Brian Brooks

11/21 David Bowie’s Lamest Halloween Costumes

 

 

 

 

 

2022-2025

CN25 03 Moving Words

CN25 02 Tortured Scrolls

CN25 01 Existential Night Flyers Goth Cat

CN25 07 Emily Strange Mashups

CN25 06 Weird Drawings of Emily The Strange

CN25 06 Stranger

CN25 05 Cats Now Gemini

CN25 04 Emily Gets A Job

CN24 03 Cats Now 2

CN24 02 Cats Now 1

CN24 01 Professor Space Cat

Where I Am From

Phoenix   :   SFX   |   MM   |   BCP   |   CHS   |   PCC

San Francisco   :   Year 1   |   Year 2   |   Year 3   |   Year 4

Boston   :   Year 1

Oakland

Art of Brian Brooks: What I Am Doing Here, Portraits, Paintings, We Like Bugs, And Books Like That, Rock N Roll Coloring Books

The Cosmic Debris Years: Illustrator, Writer, Copywriter, Graphic Designer, Art Director, 1999–2006
Chapters: Brian Gets A Job: From Art School To The Art Department, 1995–1999  |  Emily the Strange  |  Oopsy Daisy  |  Boyz on Da Run

Brian & Emily: From Emily The Strange Stickers a Girlfriend, 2002–2025 
Chapters: Tickle Attack  |  Smokey’s Tangle   |   Posters   |  Smokey’s Tangle Books

My Neighborhood Projects: Turning my Neighborhood Into A Fantasy Theme Park, 2010–2025
Chapters: Brochures   |   Temescal Now 2023   |  

Oops, I’m back: Returning to an abandoned character and further development on Oopsy Daisy and the Oopsy World, 2018–2024
Chapters: Oopsy  |  Gora  |   Sydney  |  Princess

Stranger Returns: Returning to a character and reckoning with how we fit in each other’s life after I exorcised the character, 2019–2025
Chapters: New Design  |  Animations  |  Fan Art  |  Strange Cat Art School

This Is How I Draw Cats Now & Other Things: Trying to find a meaningful path towards both creating something worth following and worth continuing in drawing series with a new tool Apple Pencil on iPad, 2022–2025
Chapters: This is How I Draw Cats Now  |  Strange Cat Art School  |  Goth Cat  |  Moving Words  |  Tortured Scrolls

 

Oakland Eras   :   Era I 1999-2008   |   Era II   |   Era III   |   Era IV 2009-2022  |

What I Am Doing Here

BRIAN BROOKS’S ARTWORK  JOURNEY (1976-2025)

Phoenix  |   Houses  |  Alley Cat  |  The Family™  |  Psychic Coffee  |  Photocopier  |  Dabashoo  |  Eetwoo  |  Collage  |  Painting   |   San Francisco   |   SFAI  |  Little Books  |  Boston  |  Oakland   | Brian Gets A Job  |  Oopsy Daisy  |  Boyz On Da Run   |   Breakfast With Idiots  |  Sgt. Rick Sings  |  Films  |  Tickle Attack  |  Smokey’s Tangle   |   Neighborhood Paintings  |  Earth Messages  |  Adventures Of Everything  |  What Ifs  |  Cool Coloring Books  |  My Neighborhood  |  The Oopsy Show   |    Temescal Now  |  This Is How I Draw Cats Now  |  Strange Cat Art School Press  |

PROPERTIES (2018-2025)

Character: Oopsy Daisy.  Oopsy Daisy Instagram

Character: Emily Strange new designs and animations for Emily The Strange Instagram   |

Document: my neighborhood Temescal Now

 

In Person
PORTRAITS & FILMS 

Animations Heavy Overview

Films

Brian & Emily

 

Photocopies

ZINES & BROCHURES

Rock n Roll Coloring Books

 

Painting

PAINTINGS & DRAWINGS

Neighborhood Plein Air Paintings & Drawings

Pen & Ink on Paper with Watercolor Earth Messages (2012)

 

Who I Am

About

Media History

 

How I Got Here

Mom

Get Here Now