Bred in the Pacific Northwest’s wooded wonderland and currently residing on a dilapidated farm in upstate New York, Kevin Hooyman has always felt strongly connected to the natural world. His paintings, illustrations and comics depict fantastic forests rich in psychedelic detail, anthropomorphic animals, and bearded shamans imparting deep wisdoms. Critiquing contemporary life from a perspective more transcendentalist than environmentalist, Hooyman’s images and stories use a detached sense of humor to break down everyday social interactions until they no longer seem to make sense or feel comfortable. Check out some pages from his latest book, Love to Live, on Arthur Magazine’s blog.
Matt Furie is more than a little bit amazing. Really, he’s all the way amazing. So it’s makes us happy when there’s brand spanking new work posted on his website– like right now. Go check it out!
Maurice heard that one of Obama’s favorite books was Where The Wild Things Are, so he sent Obama’s daughters signed books with little sketches in the front and immediately got back a hand-written thank you note from Obama. Amazing!
About the Author: Steve Martin is the kind of guy who loves to write things about himself on book flaps. In fact, he has been known to write entire books just so he could write on their flaps.
Things kids like: syncopation, adventure, investigating, jam Things kids don’t like: going to bed
Maurice Sendak makes these observations in a 1985 interview filmed by Weston Woods. The interview takes place in Sendak’s country home, which is sunny and features a psychedelic couch and Mickey Mouse clock.
Sendak is a trim man with grey hair, a close-cropped beard, and slightly unhinged eyes. Throughout the interview he wears the kind of glasses you might associate with a New Yorker editor circa 1958. He comes across as willfull, imaginative and uncompromising, and has these traits in common with children.
“[Where the Wild Things Are] didn’t frighten children,” he explains to the camera, with great seriousness. “And if it did frighten some children, well okay, perhaps it had to.”
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