Post-it Note Diaries is the culmination of almost two years worth of work. It features 20 essays by some of my favorite writers, comedians, performers and artists and one by yours truly. I illustrated each story on a series of yellow Post-it Notes and laid the whole thing out like a comic. To find out more about the project, preorder a book, or to read a sample chapter please visit the book's website.

After 9/11, the government began encouraging local police, private security and everyday Americans to report so-called "suspicious activity" that may indicate a security threat. Taking photos of landmarks, walking "nervously" and writing in a notebook are all activities that have led to people being stopped and questioned. Could you be next?

Directed and produced by Carrie Ching
Reporting and research by G.W. Schulz, Andrew Becker, Tia Ghose, Daniel Zwerdling, Margot Williams
Illustration and animation by Arthur Jones
Music by Lukasz Stasinski and Erik Haddad
Learn more at americaswarwithin.org

What's the price of gasoline? In the U.S. it's about $4 a gallon. But some experts say the true price of gas is much higher. What about the costs of pollution, and the global and local problems caused by it? Who pays for those? This animated feature from the Center for Investigative Reporting calculates the carbon footprint and other external costs of gasoline use in the U.S. The talented David Fischoff composed music for this but it was cut at the last minute for editorial considerations.

Reported by Sarah Terry-Cobo
Produced by Carrie Ching and Sarah Terry-Cobo
Sound mix and editing by Carrie Ching
Animation and illustration by Arthur Jones

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Everyone who's a Public Radio fan dreds pledge drives, not because they hate donating but because they make for such awkward listening. It's hard to hear the NPR hosts transform themselves into giggling used car salesmen, smarming it up for cash. It's like having your favorite college professor suddenly try to sell you a RONCO food dehydrator.

This American Life does pledge drives right. They are straight forward about what they need from their listeners and offer those who pledge, cool, speciality items. A few years back they had me design a paint by numbers kit as one of their listener premiums. Each kit gave you the choice to paint one of two scenarios that were based on beloved episodes of the show. The first painting is based on episode 172, "24 Hours at the Golden Apple." It depicts a lone waitress in sort of Nighthawks at the Diner sort of scene. The second is of a squirrel on fire illustrating an infamous story that was part of TAL episode 115, entitled "Squirrel Cop." If you haven't heard either episode go check 'em out now. They're both classics.

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In 2010 I participated in the 20th Century Fox Ink-ubation Program. where Fox gives small development deals to animators, in hopes to find American's next animated sitcom hit. For the program I turned in a 15 minute animated presentation for a television show called Kids Like Us. Animators Karl Ackermann and Jon Bryski helped with the production and direction of the shorts, David Wilcox story edited, and Mark Greenberg did the music and sfx.

Remember 2008? Remember when websites entertained people not just competed for our likes, diggs, pingbacks and tweets? In 2008, Lexus, the luxury car company, hired my friend Starlee Kine (writer, comedian and radio personality) and I to create a series of entertaining animated video shorts reviewing things. "What sort of things?" you ask. Well, really, really random things. Things like French conceptualist Sophie Calle, Gene Hackman's career, a forgotten island off of Manhattan where Typhoid Mary died, LOST season 4 and famous Art Heists. Even more random than the things we reviewed were the other people Lexus hired for their shorts like ex-Friend Lisa Kudrow (!?) and Jon Anderson leads singer of 70's prog group, Yes. As random as the job was these videos were a blast to work on and it makes me very nostalgic for three years ago. My favorite videos are for Last Words, Fun and the Fox and the Hedgehog.

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Found magazine turns other's people trash into everyone's treasure. They publish stuff submitted by the magazine's readers -- stuff like lost to-do lists, forgotten birthday cards, discarded kids' homework and old poetry on napkins. I used to work for the magazine, designing their website and art directing Dirty Found, a publication that collected all the material that was too racy for regular PG-13 Found. We didn't just publish dirty Polaroids though, we ran anything that was overly candid or sexually ridiculous, like heartbreaking break-up letters, lurid prison correspondences and crazy drawings by hormonal teenage boys. Jason Bitner, Dirty Found's editor and I wanted it to read like a vernacular Kinsey report not a porno mag. Each issue was meticuously assembled and every spread was hand collaged to seem like it was straight out of your uncle's wood-paneled basement.

"Dirty Found is art-filth folk art that proves everybody's sex life is secretly touching." -John Waters

"An appealing mix of voyeurism and sociology." -The New York Times

"Something of a masterpiece." -Screw Magazine

"Think National Lampoon meets National Geographic..." -Flavorpill

"You can take everything ever written about America or Americans by natives or visitors whether fact or fiction since the first pilgrims landed here, and it will all pale as illustrations of the American psyche when held up to these genuine and perfect examples of pathos, anger, longing, and heart-break (and how stupid and inane we can be), located within these pages." -David Cross

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Busy Beaver Buttons is a Chicago-based company that makes buttons of all shapes and sizes, good, fast and cheap. This is a little instructional comic that was included in every order like a puzzle in a cracker jack box. It's pictured here at 100%, and was offset print in two colors. It was also turned into a silkscreened poster, as you can see in slides 6 and 7.

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Everyone knows that a group of cows is called a herd. But did you know that a group of crows is called a murder? Actually you probably did know that. But did you know that a group of Zebras is called a zeal? This poster has all sorts of animal groups on it - from a knot of toads to a cacophony of catepillars. Silkscreened in hot pink and cobalt blue. $25, shipping included.

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These are three CD designs I did for some friends in Chicago. Two are for the mighty and eccentric, Icy Demons, a band who never met a time signature or pun they could resist. First, is the Japanese release of their breezy summer pop album, Miami Ice, on Easel Records. Second, is their 2006 lost break-up masterwork, Tears of Clone, on the defunct Eastern Developments label. The final record included in this gallery is by Butchy Fuego for Pickled Egg Records UK. Years ago Butchy and I made a couple radio documentaries together for WBEZ/Chicago Public Radio. One on suburban ghost hunting, the other on Christian rock music.

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Here are a few other items I designed for This American Life. Slide 1 is a letterpressed postcard I made for TAL's subscriber program, where fans of the show received a CD of a new TAL episode every month. Slides 2 and 3 are shirt and patch made as tour merchandise. Each depicts a flaming squirrel made famous in "Squirrel Cop," TAL episode 115. Slide 4 is a business card I designed for them when they moved from Chicago to New York.