Through Darkest Adolescence: With Tongue in Cheek and Pen in Checkbook

"a 1962 book by Richard Armour... Susan Perl is credited with the illustrations"
From Cartoon Retro where you can see many more illustrations.

Straight From the Pigeon's Mouth

www.pigeonpresents.com

WOW! WEBSITE!

Robert Neubecker

Harry Potter: Covers Abundant

and odd.


Saipanwriter thinks of tennis. Elizabeth says the cover kind of reminds her of THE HIGHER POWER OF LUCKY. And Roger Sutton is reminded of both tennis and THE HIGHER POWER OF LUCKY.

Blue Rose Girls: Calling All Artists!

Robert's Snow 2007

(The snowflake above is by Dan Yaccarino, 2005)

Grace and Robert explain the Robert's Snow Fundraiser via Quicktime • on NBC's Today Show (5 MB)

Great Book Jacket And Cover Design

by Alan Powers

Locomotive, The Turnip and The Birds' Broadcast

"A rare 1938 children's book, originally written in Polish but translated over the years into several languages..."

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bredlo/sets/72157600013984249/show/

Many thanks to Drawn

Steve Martin interviews Roz Chast

http://www.newyorker.com/online/video/2006/10/09/comicturn

Chronicle Books GIVE AWAY CONTEST

The Seed Is Sleepy Spring children's book contest.

Thank you, book_buds_kidlit_reviews/

"Magazine covers are fun"

Mo Willems Doodles: That’s Covered...

Old Playground Equipment

via Flickr.com

Explore Dahl's Writing Hut

(and check out that "femur head" !)

ENTER

Mad Magazine-inspired comic strip by William Barry

"The Haunted Mansion Supplement appears to have been a supplemental publication to the internal newsletter Backstage Disneyland, and was produced to commemorate the 1969 opening of the Haunted Mansion. It is a tongue-in-cheek send-up of WED Enterprises, the company’s theme park design division that would ultimately evolve into Walt Disney Imagineering."

From 2719hyperion.blogspot.com

THE RELATIVES CAME

UNCLE ANDY'S by James Warhola (click on the jpeg to see detail)

Aurelius Battaglia

From Cartoon Retro --where you can see many more examples.

And here too: msn.com/inventaire/aureliusbattagliachien

QUENTIN BLAKE

via www.chrisbeetles.com
Chris Beetles Ltd
8 & 10 Ryder St
St James's
London SW1Y 6QB

And http://www.quentinblake.com/kids/kids.asp

Two Fish Out Of Water

via The Children's Picturebook Price Guide:

"As a child, I loved the story A Fish Out Of Water. It was, and remains, one of my favorite Beginner Books.

Written by Helen Palmer, the wife of Theodor Seuss Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, A Fish Out Of Water has a ‘preposterous-ness’ one associates with a Dr. Seuss story. Then it’s not surprising to discover the story is virtually identical to Seuss’s Gustav The Goldfish, which was published a decade earlier in the June 1950 Redbook Magazine!"

Go to 1stedition.net to see more side by side comparisons.

Thank you, Linda & Stan Zielinski!

Zelda

Thank you, Cute Overload

Osvaldo Cavandoli (January 1, 1920 – March 3, 2007)

Cartoon Brew has a post up about Osvaldo Cavandoli, animator of La Linea, “possibly the best known character Italian animation ever produced.”

Camp Spiderwick

How do I enroll?

(It's probably too late. Oh well.)

"Sleepy Pigs" & "Pinocchio"

by Amanda Visell

Event: Pirates of the Caribbean 40th Anniversary Product Release & Signing

& Beyond the Berm

Scarry PC Redux, Part II

I knew about this updated version of a Richard Scarry book: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kokogiak/sets/1425737/

But I just found this update that Hillary Lang posted back in May of 2005-- a 1976 page from Cars and Trucks, paired with the original from 1951: http://weewonderfuls.typepad.com/wee_wonderfuls/2005/05/look_what_i_fou.html

Anyone remember when I posted about Cars and Trucks, an old Golden Book with illustrations by Richard Scarry? And there was this page that stuck out like a sore 70s thumb in the middle of an all 50s book.

It's really hard to look at this Before and After and not think of Mad magazine.

A Tiny Doll with Really Big Hair

http://www.dollsntoys.com/liddle.htm


http://www.juliascollectibles.com/ju23000.htm

If you are of a certain age you might remember Mattel's Liddle Kiddle dolls. They are very small-- some were sold inside a plastic "perfume" bottles. (So storage is not an issue.)

An interview with Adam Rex

http://kellyrfineman.livejournal.com/180033.html

Thank you, Ms. Fineman
(Ms. Fineman’s picture is by Kevin Slattery )

John and Clare Romano Ross & Sunny B. Cook

Woodcut illustrations by John and Clare Romano Ross can be found at The Firehouse Stomp. Thank you, Nick Sung! What a fantastic line-up of Influences.

And thank you for posting those illustrations by the mysterious Sunny B. Cook.

The Hays Code

Click on the photo to read the text

Jerry at Cartoon Brew has posted photos of a 1939 article from Look magazine illustrating how the Hays Code operated in censoring animated cartoons.

Forget Johnny

http://www.randomhouse.com/broadway/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780767922456

In this clear, inspirational guide, she provides step-by-step instructions for training the dog in your life to read flash cards with one-word commands and stick-figure drawings. With more than fifty instructional photographs, Teach Your Dog to Read is an amazing tool for making your dog smarter and enhancing your capacity to communicate with each other.


Then teach him to ski:

The Wurst is an online gallery based out of Portland, Oregon run by Jason Sturgill and his wife Sarah.

The poster is by Bjørn Lie.

Danke schön, fusenumber8 , and Maira Kalman

Illustrations from "The Invention of Hugo Cabret"

http://theinventionofhugocabret.com/html/02hugocabret01ss.html

(Brian Selznick’s new illustrated novel)

Paddington Bear

Choreography by Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen

Thank you, http://martinklasch.blogspot.com/