Showing posts with label BOOK In the Night Kitchen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BOOK In the Night Kitchen. Show all posts
23 August 2012

Redoing Mickey’s Monkey?

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The legend of Maurice Sendak ’s In the Night Kitchen is that “librarians across the country” painted a diaper or underwear over the hero Mi...
22 August 2012

Baked-in Resentment from Sendak

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I was struck by this quotation from Jonathan Cott’s interview with Maurice Sendak in Pipers at the Gates of Dawn (1983), about the inspira...
17 May 2012

Sendak as a Born Curmudegon

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Among all the encomia for Maurice Sendak that have appeared in recent days, I particularly appreciated Michael Patrick Hearn’s clear-eyed...
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11 September 2008

Sendak as a Lion in Winter

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Yesterday's New York Times profile of Maurice Sendak at 80 might be summed up as, "He's gay, but he's not happy." Wh...
11 November 2007

Balloons and Other Ways Comics Show the Invisible

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Probably the most visible hallmark of comics style is the use of speech balloons . For centuries artists have conveyed the idea that people ...
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09 November 2007

Same Image, Slightly Different

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Having broken the news that there are more pictures on a typical comics page than a typical picture-book page , I'm going out on a limb ...
07 November 2007

Page Spreads versus Pages

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Yesterday I promised my thoughts on how picture books and comics work differently, even though they're both made up of words and sequen...
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06 November 2007

Drawing the Line Between Comics and Picture Books

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I am of course not the only fellow musing on where the line, if any, lies between comics and picture books. That's a big part of the arg...
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