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Raiden Block is a real little boy, the character is based on my friend’s child (they even look alike). The Raiden in “The Strange Land”, however, has a magical remote that lets him communicate with animals. In his story Raiden makes friends with a lion, a cheetah, an elephant and many more.

I draw the Raiden and the animals free hand and then import them into Illustrator to complete the backgrounds.

Please check back regularly to see    
what Raiden’s gotten himself into.

thumbnailTitle page for The Strange Land thumbnailFirst page of The Strange Land. Pictures child in hilly landscape with caption, Raiden Block was a curious child, One day he wandered into the wild thumbnailpencil drawn illustration of Raiden next to an Adobe illustrator drawing of the same subject thumbnailPage 7 of the strange land picturing Raiden holding a remote control the caption reads, What else can it do he yelled out loud and checked to see if there were other animals around thumbnailPencil drawn image of Raiden holding the remote next to an Adobe illustrator version of the same subject thumbnailPage 8 picturing Raiden seeing a cheetah in a patch of grass the caption reads, He eyed a cheetah behind some brush whos spotted fur looked very plush thumbnailPage 9 picturing Raiden hugging the cheetah, the caption reads, He pushed a button and to his surprise the cheetah came purring right up to his side thumbnailpencil drawing of a heron with an Adobe Illustrator version of the same subject