Yeah, but you know if you ever met a kid who gets to wear any of these, they’d be the most frightful, silver spoon, little brats.

Sendak for his dedication to emotional reality of kid lit. Klee for his textures and inventive use of materials. Khing pretty much defined what children’s book illustration was in the Netherlands for three decades.
The Provensens for their compositions, colour, and texture.

Artists, show what built your style!

Hard to just pick four, but Sendak, Paul Klee, The Tjong Khing, and the Provensens are pretty foundational.

I still get a dopamine hit from Fry’s compound swearing.

Fry and Laurie Balls sketch YouTube video by gorkys6

Suddenly remembered what this nonsense reminded me of

“Long ago I yearned to be a hero without knowing, in truth, what a hero was. Now, perhaps, I understand it a little better. A grower of turnips or a shaper of clay, a Commot farmer or a king--every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone."

~~THE HIGH KING
Lloyd Alexander

For no reason I’m suddenly remembering when Amanda Palmer got briefly arrested when she tried to perform on a ww2 memorial in Amsterdam.

We need to start giving people on the computer the disdain they deserve.
You’re not an influencer, you’re just bored.

No, it’s hot!

When did you turn into Michael Chabon?

Hilarious how many kids book people use substack for their little blogs

Not to mention what a different place we’d be in if Trump’s racism would be treated as a sign of the ubiquity of bigotry across society instead of some kind of special connection he has to the ‘common man’ etc.

It’s easy to be happy when you’ve burned off your humanity.

This is fascinating - English used to have a pronoun for "we two". Can't imagine how romantic poets and writers of love songs let that drop put of use!

You can get very far by flattering certain liberals’ prejudices against poor whites.
Maybe it’s having a European’s sensitivity for class, but the dynamics of self-hating Vance and his rich liberal audience’s appetite for casting blame on ‘those people’ was always obvious.

Seriously

The cover of the book Boy here Boy There, a neanderthal boy looks out to the reader, with woolly mammoths in the background.

A boy in the woods points at various animals running and flying off

A neanderthal boy and a homo sapiens boy stare at each other from opposite sides of a creek

A neanderthal boy looks back at a valley in twilight

For the curious.

Did you know you can still buy my book?
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/709851...

Recently received the first copy of my author/illustrator debut!

Some sketches and studies from my book Boy Here Boy There.

Early season X-files looks better than most movies today.

Illustration of a mouse holding pieces of a branch against a dark background, B&W.

🖼️ Lauren Pettapiece

Same goes for literally anyone in absolutely any creative profession.

Went to the Morgan’s Mozart exhibition today, and still can’t quite process that was the tiny violin he spent his childhood playing and practicing on.

They better!

Can’t say that overhearing this loud woman on the train talk about being a ‘Disney family’ and how great ‘the ai’ is,
is helping me not to be too judgmental about people.

Good Fortune YouTube video by Thomas Newman - Topic

Thomas Newman at least wrote the best work he’s done in years, and has managed not to be an asshole.