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 If  |  Cool Coloring Books  |  Zines & Brochures  |  Oopsy World   |    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


DRAWINGS & ANIMATIONS (2023-2025)

 

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