Food Fight Blog

Pacific Northwest snack attacks

Sandra Gibbons

Tags artist, bookstore, coloring book, fair, Olympia, Portland, work

Pacific Northwest snack attacks

Thank you to everyone who attended the Severe Snacks Coloring Book Release Party and art show! You made the party a smashing success. Through January, the prints are still up and the coloring books for sale at No Wave Coffee (7510 N Portsmouth). Check them out if you're in the neighborhood! Next weekend, I'll be slinging Severe Snacks Coloring Books, notebooks, and some new surprises at a pop-up holiday bazaar at downtown Portland's Valentines (232 SW Ankeny St). The details: Saturday December 17th  12-4 Fashion, music, art! Drink specials! Sweet sweet jams by DJ MINI SKIRT... And, last, but not least,...


You're invited to the Severe Snacks Coloring Book Release Party

Sandra Gibbons

Tags art show, coloring book, party, Portland

You're invited to the Severe Snacks Coloring Book Release Party

Join us for a coloring book release party for Severe Snacks- A Coloring Book, and check the new food fight prints by Sandra Gibbons. It's happening On December 2nd at No Wave Coffee in Portland, OR, from 6-9pm. Check out the Facebook event page here.  Get a copies of the coloring book for yourself and everyone on your Holiday list! Party with some fierce snacks and fun folk! There will be colored pencils, crayons, markers, and other art supplies if you want to color the night away. Questions? Email: info@severesnack.com


Sharpen your pencils! Severe Snacks- A Coloring Book is almost here

Sandra Gibbons

Tags artist, coloring book, shop talk, work

Sharpen your pencils! Severe Snacks- A Coloring Book is almost here

Right now, there's a brown truck roaring west on freeway from Minnesota to Oregon. Its trailer holds, among whatever freaky stuff is in the rest of those packages, boxes of Severe Snacks- A Coloring Book. I look out the window, with confirmation number in hand and a space cleared in my art studio for the stacks. Oh, the drama of waiting for a package! I've been drawing these funny fighting snacks for over two years. I knew pretty quickly that I wanted to make them into a coloring book. Coloring books weren't just "in", there was also something really cool about them as a project. What artist wouldn't want...


Out-of-Order History of Anthropomorphic Snacks #3- Hersheypark

Out-of-Order History of Anthropomorphic Snacks #3- Hersheypark

That’s me in the Sonic Youth tee, with my two younger siblings. Shortly after this picture was taken, I stopped going to theme parks with my family. I declared that theme parks were an artificial entertainment designed to distract the masses in a sort of replacement rush for the thrill of the violent olden days… or something like that. My mom told me I was being pretentious; I was. In all likelihood, I just didn’t want to hang out with my family anymore.  Before that acned stage, I loved theme parks: roller coasters, water slides, haunted houses, the rigged games,...


Coloring Book Preview

Sandra Gibbons

Comments 1 Tags coloring book, picnic, preview

Coloring Book Preview

Get your colored pencils sharpened up, the Severe Snacks Coloring Book is coming out this fall! Here are a few picnic-worthy sample pages: "Y, tu, Brute?" A pickle saga.Corndogs at high noon.Cannibal picnic.