Cover | Gail Machlis

We All Love the Pumpkin Man (gouache and watercolor). Gail Machlis is the creator of the daily syndicated cartoon panel “Quality Time” which ran for ten years in daily newspapers, including the San Francisco Chronicle and San Jose Mercury News. Machlis majored in French at U.C. Berkeley and began drawing cartoons seriously in 1988, after leaving a writing program at Mills College. She is currently writing and illustrating children’s books and doing freelance illustration. Her cards and original paintings are available at her Fourth Street studio in Berkeley. She is represented by Bookstop Literary Agency and can be reached at gmachlis@flash.net.