Book Launch Party!

and art exhibit for 'Mermaids On Parade'
Wednesday, June 11, 2008 from 6 - 9 pm. For all ages. Free.

The book's author-illustrator, Melanie Hope Greenberg will be autographing her picture book about a Coney Island tradition. The art exhibition extends to July 6, 2008. Special Kids Program on Saturday June 28, 2008 from 1-2pm. Free! Where? you say?
SUPERFINE, 126 Front Street Brooklyn, NY 11201, 718.243.9005

Attention Illustrators!

This July, the Just One More Book!! children's book podcast will celebrate its second anniversary and 400th episode of promoting children's books and literacy. As part of our celebration, we are redesigning our website and would like the new look to include artwork that promotes a love of reading.
Illustrators of all backgrounds are invited to submit a logo-like illustration that can be resized nicely and featured on our website for everyone to enjoy. Illustrators submitting artwork will be invited to be guests of Just One More Book!! to talk about their design, the creative process and how their submission helps to promote a love of reading.
We ask that all submissions be emailed to justonemorebook@gmail.com in JPG, PNG or GIF format, 500×500 pixels on or before June 15, 2008. Let us know if you have any questions.
Thanks and Happy Reading!

Andrea & Mark-- www.JustOneMoreBook.com

William Steig, "We Clean 'Em" 1944

and a doll named Poor Pitiful Pearl at pinestreetartworks.com.

More examples of Pearl, here.

everybody’s coffee table

Ceramic art and textiles by Stig Lindberg, and more stuff with birds and leaves.

Dr. Seuss Ford Commercials

Genuine Ford Parts & Service by DwightFrye (thanks to threemeninatub.blogspot.com)

I guess movie theaters could order these commercials. I found this ad at saturdaymorn.blogspot.com:

Helicopter Parents as illustrated by

Robert Neubecker, Tony Ross, Zohar Lazar and Steve Brodner.

From Wikipedia: An extension of the term, "Black Hawks," has been coined for those who cross the line from a mere excess of zeal to unethical behavior such as writing their children's college admission essays.

I haven't read this book yet. But do you know who has?

The Pink-Haired Librarian

ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive:

Gustaf Tenggren's Little Trapper

Notes on Spring

(and what pays Stephen King's light bill up in Bangor, Maine)

One, Two , Three (PW cover by Tad Hills)

Britta Teckentrup

childrensillustrators.com Julie Fortenberry

HIS WHEREABOUTS UNKNOWN

(thanks to some blog at SLJ)

A Lynda Barry audio slide show

Do You Wish You Could Write?

What's Jon Buller's Story?

He tells you HERE.

Uri Shulevitz

After forty-five years as a children’s author, Uri Shulevitz now gives us his first explicitly autobiographical story. It is a masterpiece.

1960s VIETNAMESE BATMAN AND ROBIN COMIC BOOK

via Boing Boing

Japanese bookcase dividers

very nice (but might be kind of hard on your shins...)
Thanks to boingboing.

A Monster At My Window

Jack Kirby, 1962 and Harry Bliss, 2008 (May 12th, New Yorker)

Andrea U'Ren

website, and at Morgan Gaynin Inc.

Catharina Valckx

The Ten Cent Plague

An interview with author David Hajdu on BookTV. Cover by Charles Burns.

Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy

at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 7, 2008–September 1, 2008 (More Vogue photos here.) AND A SLIDE SHOW HERE

The Second Annual Animation Book Look Celebration, Saturday, May 17, 2008

THE STORY OF FERDINAND

More about Ferdinand at collectingchildrensbooks.blogspot.com.

(And while visiting Collecting Children's Books, see Monosyllabic Monographs of Antediluvian Yesteryears about "An odd fad in past kid books.")

Reminder

Today is Free Comic Book Day. (The store picks the comic book. Titles run from Jughead and All-Star Superman to X-Men and Sonic the Hedgehog.) http://www.midtowncomics.com/custompages/fcbd2008.asp

jpeg from confessions123.blogspot.com

Japanese Crepe Paper Books
from The Baika Women's University Collection of Crêpe Paper Books in Japan (via flickr and BibliOdyssey)
...more than one hundred and fifty works produced between about 1880 and 1940 in English, Spanish, French, German and Portuguese editions.

Lightly moistened Japanese paper was wrapped around a vertical cylindrical form and crinkled by pressing the paper down to the bottom of the cylinder. The crinkled paper was removed, opened, and wrapped around the cylinder again in a different direction. This was repeated eight or ten times. By this laborious method, soft, crêpe-like paper was finally produced. In the process, the size of the Japanese paper was reduced to about 80%. The pages were assembled and bound with silk thread.

Thanks again to Ms. Bird for the link.

Joanna Cotler Steps Down from Imprint

Tomorrow is Free Comic Book Day!

http://freecomicbookday.com/

Find a participating comic book store near you.

Squids 101: What I Like to See in an Artist's Portfolio

Solid advice from Ms. Klein.

Henry Cole

from sketch to final color illustration:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Kadir Nelson

WE ARE THE SHIP (from BBC America), and A Painter at Heart & Wish Upon a Star… but do your homework, too (which are two parts from an online interview from readingrockets.org. And then there's part 5 in this series.)

More Kadir HERE.

Two Beautiful Abstract Paintings

Here's my husband's "Etsy page"

You can go on skates. You can go on skis. ... You can go in an old blue shoe.
Just go, go, GO!

A new book argues that Disney movies like “Bambi” inspired generations of environmentalists, while others criticize the films’ distorted views of nature and animals.

Greg Clarke

Piglet On Analyst's Couch from storyopolis.com.

Straight Talk About the Food Chain

...books that we love and that kids love that make other adults uncomfortable.
From Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast.

Don't Buy This Book

The work of dozens of illustrators, along with have been unceremoniously plagiarized . (Story via Art, Words, Life.)

Nicky Goes To The Doctor

Original art by Richard Scarry at everypicture.com (But what if Nicky has a preexisting condition?)

The mystery remains as to exactly how the huge Syd Hoff print came to hang in many Mimi's cafes without the permission the late Hoff's family. (See THE MYSTERY OF THE MURAL on Syd's site.)

Joe Simon

Eva Eriksson See more illustrations here (How do you rotate them?)

George O'Connor

Ralph Bakshi