Category: Drawings

  • Ban the Fan is Worldwide!

    Ban the Fan is Worldwide!

    My new book, Ban the Fan, is now available worldwide! Any local bookshop can easily order my books for you with the title and my name (author). Bookshop.org is a pretty cool option to find my books. Or, find my books on all the big online booksellers in your country (like Amazon, Barnes and Noble,…

  • New Book Pre-Order: Ban the Fan

    New Book Pre-Order: Ban the Fan

    I’m happy to launch pre-orders for my new book, “Ban the Fan.” These will be signed and shipped by me. The book will also launch worldwide November 15 and should be available anywhere you like to buy books (local book stores can easily bring it in or all the usual online booksellers should list it).  This…

  • Another Dropper Post Cartoon

    Another Dropper Post Cartoon

    Mountain biking is so full of absurd tech. Wireless shifting, laser guided suspension, and soft tires you have to pump up harder so they feel normal. Dropper posts seem like they would be at the top end of absurdity but the simple addition of an easily-put-out-of-the-way saddle adjuster makes mountain biking a lot more fun.…

  • A Christmas Card from Me

    A Christmas Card from Me

    This is my card from this year. I sent out a bunch of them and if you didn’t get one I’m sure I meant to send one to you. *If I didn’t subconsciously rip this off from the Farside it sure feels like I could have.

  • A Holiday Card for Full Factory

    A Holiday Card for Full Factory

    Drew up this holiday card for Full Factory Distribution. Hope y’all have a great holidays!

  • New Shirts for Fairdale Bikes

    New Shirts for Fairdale Bikes

    I drew a couple new T-shirts for Fairdale Bikes. I think this guy is pretty cool. A rabbit in Samurai armor calling down the power of thunder via his carrot sword. Kind of fun to empower the meek little bunny with such a weapon! Check it on Fairdale here. I really like this giraffe in…

  • A Few Drawings for PinkBike

    A Few Drawings for PinkBike

    I got to do a few doodles for PinkBike on Jessie-May Morgan’s Anti-Rise article. She explained it well enough that I think I understand what it is now! And, that I will stick to hardtails for now.

  • Dig Fragments with Taj

    Dig Fragments with Taj

    My good pal Sandy Carson came up to visit and interviewed me for this Dig Fragments video. Talked about the old BMX days and drew him a giraffe doing a no-hander. Sandy’s band Skloss has a new single/ video too. I have a little cameo in it but more importantly the song and video are…

  • World of Wonders for Lenzerheide

    World of Wonders for Lenzerheide

    I got to work with Anthill Films on a video for Lenzerheide. I drew some “wonder” on this poster and did some animation in the film. Nico Vuignier did some rad skiing. At one point there was a lot of animated chickens in the video but then we realized that had nothing to do with…

  • A New Shirt for Fairdale

    A New Shirt for Fairdale

    “Fine minds find good lines.” I came up with this slogan while working on a Vans project but have kept it for myself and Fairdale. I love finding lines while riding my bike and I think it’s the best feeling there is stringing together a bunch of things in sequence. I thought it fit well…

  • New Postcard for Fairdale Bikes

    New Postcard for Fairdale Bikes

    I drew a new postcard for Fairdale Bikes and the Elevator model. This is the MTB I rode this last season and will be riding whenever it gets a little warmer. Super fun, short-back-end, hardtail.

  • I Drew Tattoos for PinkBike

    I Drew Tattoos for PinkBike

    PinkBike gave away tattoos at Crankworx of my cartoons. Like real tattoos that people actually had tattooed on them, forever. I had a real laugh drawing these. There was 7 pages of flashart but above are a few of them.

  • Few Recent Doodles and Bicycle Film Fest

    Few Recent Doodles and Bicycle Film Fest

    My animation about Greg Minnaar was added to this year’s Bicycle Film Festival. Thanks for the honor! Drew Santa on the Grim Donut for PinkBike. Also drew a new podcast title image for PinkBike with WAY too much detail. And a little Christmas card for Fairdale Bikes.

  • Leaving Geneva

    Leaving Geneva

    There’s not a whole lot to say about the ride out of Geneva but it ended at a fantastic hotel. I arrived hungry and the hotel had free pizza. And not artistically made fancy pizza on a paper thin crust with toppings stingily globbed here or there. And it wasn’t cheapo chemical laden greasy fast…

  • Geneva and Giraffe

    Geneva and Giraffe

    I walked around Geneva with a sketchbook in hand and mechanical pencil in pocket. I let myself get lost by going where my feet took me. Every so often I would sit down and draw or write in my book. I find walking a good time to think up ideas that are quickly forgotten unless…

  • Dutch Urban Strike Force

    Dutch Urban Strike Force

    I saw this kid’s smile first. I was coasting through a small town outside The Hague being a tourist and this irrepressible grin was beaming from across the sidewalk. It was one of pure joy that simply could not be contained. I inspected the scene and saw that it was a 12-maybe-13-year old kid wearing…

  • Transatlantic Taj

    Transatlantic Taj

    I enjoyed myself on the big ship even though I wasn’t much interested in the things the cruise provided for entertainment. The pseudo luxury with spas, servants at the ready, and turn down service wasn’t for me. Nor dressing up in fancy clothes, drinking, partying or even socializing. I never went to the fancy gala…

  • 2 Months in Whistler Update

    2 Months in Whistler Update

    I’ve been up in Whistler for two months and I’m nearing the end of my visit. The next part of my trip will see more posts here as I think it will be more of a daily-updating adventure. Temporarily living in BC, Canada has been wonderful. It’s mostly been about bike riding on the mountain…

  • Few Doodled Thoughts

    Few Doodled Thoughts

    I still don’t like coffee but I do like getting out of my little airBNB and putting myself into a new place to tap into the creative inspiration offered up by people watching. My drink, which feels more like the price of admission to the coffee shop rather than something I’m really craving is: hot…

  • Vans x Fairdale (and kind of ” x Taj” too)

    Vans x Fairdale (and kind of ” x Taj” too)

     I had the wonderful pleasure of working with both Vans and Fairdale Bikes on a colab package. We started with one of my signature bikes, the Taj 27.5″ cruiser, and covered it in some special decals I drew. My character Giraffe is the star of the Vans x Fairdale bike. He also appears on two Vans shoes they let…

  • Books By Taj

    Books By Taj

    I currently have two books out in the world.  “Bernie the Bike Builder” and “Back Before They Invented Open Face Helmets“ Bernie the Bike Builder is a children’s book.  Bernie the Bike Builder Buy Now Bernie is a master bike builder. The bikes he designs and builds are sought after by bike racers all over the…