About Us

It’s not often that you find a business partnership cemented by a handshake, trust, and mutual respect for one another, like the kind shared by Bruce Garrabrandt and Jeffrey White. In 2005, colored pencil artist Garrabrandt and printing and publishing veteran White crossed paths to begin a creative and collaborative journey that continues to evolve to this day. 

A self-taught artist, Bruce has brought joy to thousands of adoring fans of his whimsical artwork for over 35 years.  He is grateful to be able to share his love of humor and art with others. 

When he began his business as an artist, the work he offered for sale consisted of traditional wildlife and landscape drawings.  After seven years, Bruce introduced whimsical wildlife drawings with “punch-line” titles.  He’d always loved humor, but years passed before it dawned on him that he could combine that love of humor with his art.  “I was a slow learner,” he quips, “but eventually figured things out.”

Bruce continued producing traditional work until 2001.  Four days after 9/11, he sat at an outdoor art show in Upper Montclair, NJ.  Sadly, many of the residents in that town died in the World Trade Towers. The crowds were thin, but all weekend,  people came into his booth, laughed at the whimsical drawings on display, then turned to say some variation of this:  “Thank you—that’s the first time I’ve laughed in four days.”  For Bruce, it was humbling. He sat there thinking, “God gave us humor because He knew we would need it.”  That weekend, he decided to leave traditional art and dedicate himself to creating “random acts of artistic nonsense” exclusively.  

He never looked back.  

“Humor is essential, especially during difficult times,” Bruce says.  “It’s interesting that ‘The Golden Age of Comedy’ was during the decade of the 1930’s,   The supply of humor rose to meet a greater demand during the Great Depression.  Americans needed to laugh then, and I think we need to laugh now.  Humor sees us through our troubled days.” 

Jeff grew up in a family business that printed some of Bruce’s earliest drawings. While ink-on-paper was in his veins, Jeff took a particular interest in emerging digital technologies in the 1990s, before the advent of the internet. In a phone call to Bruce in early 2005, Jeff suggested that Bruce’s work could work well in an interactive or video medium. After some planning and a shoestring budget, they embarked on a video program of comedic storytelling with slideshows of Bruce’s drawings as intermissions between each segment. Nature with a Twist: A Playful Look at Life, Art, and Other Turmoil launched their creative partnership. 

To date, Bruce and Jeff have produced eleven projects: coffee table books of Bruce’s art, two about his cats, two inspirational and personal development books, a book about fictional phobias, and a video program. The partners regularly discuss creative ways to repurpose Bruce’s vast content library.

Bruce maintains a rigid daily regimen of three hours at his easel and has produced over 700 whimsical drawings during his decades-long career. 

We are excited to launch this website to feature Bruce’s books, links to eBooks, blog articles, and other whimsical items as we develop them. 

Thanks for stopping by!