Buttons goes to the Moon, otherwise known as Mark gets Kate to do an elaborate favour, again.

I have a friend we're going to refer to as Mark. Mark is useless. Yet somehow he hits the right balance of insulting and inappropriate jokes, a sprinkling of cuteness and abolutely ridiculously insane and inflammatory ideas, so we keep him around, and laugh helplessly and hysterically at pretty much everything he says. It doesn't help that I introduced him to a friend of mine who we will call Carmen (possibly the only person on earth who could stand Mark's sense of humour) and now they're totes in wuv fowevver and I get a double dose of him. He calls her Buttons. She makes baby talk noises. I regret ever letting them in the same room, but these things happen.

Mark likes to come up with new and more useless ways to utilise my drawing skills, and apparently he's a really good salesperson because I always seem to go with it. The most recent is a long string of illustrated children's books, which are usually highly inappropriate and not intended for children at all. The current one is called "Buttons goes to the moon" which he'll be getting published through blurb.com (super cool, take a look!) as a gift for Carmen's birthday, and our conversation went something like this:

Mark "Make Buttons really pretty and feminine... give her really cute whiskers"
Me "Is Buttons meant to be Carmen?"
Mark "Definitely not"
Me "So this bit where the space dog has sex with Buttons definitely isn't about Carmen?"
Mark "I would never write something like that. That's completely inappropriate Kate. Geez."
Me "..."
Mark "So anyway, when Carmen gets to the moon, I want her to play some moon badminton before she fucks the space dog..."

And so on.

Here are a couple sneak peeks of the illustrations, my style underwent a drastic change part way through when I decided Buttons needed to look infinitely more spastic if she was destined for a Mark book.