Drawings | Clip Art Autobiography | Neighborhood Artist
| 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
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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
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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 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)
Strange Cat Art School new collections of drawings featuring Emily Strange
Emily the Strange Drawings 2023
This Is How I Draw Cats Now History
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 | |
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Paul McCartney Songs 4/95 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 |
19992/12 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
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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
Photocopies
ZINES & BROCHURES
Painting
PAINTINGS & DRAWINGS
Neighborhood Plein Air Paintings & Drawings
Pen & Ink on Paper with Watercolor Earth Messages (2012)