Sunday, May 20, 2007

Win a Prize For Overwritten Awfulness

(Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton)


Entries received before the contest opens on May 28th or after it closes 24 HOURS LATER will not be considered.

(Hat tip to Fuse #8 )

A Warning to Artists

bigcatheads ~ the blog: A Warning to all Artists and Galleries.

My cable and electricity are back!

(Many thanks to Kids Lit and Valeria Petrone for this jpeg!)


A brief storm on Wednesday knocked trees onto the power lines. A huge broken limb was left hanging in the branches over the driveway. So we hired a tree service.

A two-man team arrived at 8:30 a.m. I woke my teenage son and told him to come watch the man with the chainsaw hoist himself 70 feet in the air. My son said, “I can see that on YouTube,” and he went back to sleep.

Friday, May 11, 2007

Thank you, Julia Rothman


I regularly notice and have collected over the years. Please email me if you have any suggestions or books you want to share.
I am an illustrator and pattern designer located in Brooklyn, New York."

A Syd Hoff Slideshow


http://www.pbase.com/csw62/hoff&view=slideshow

from the Cartoon Gallery (Wait a little bit for the thumbnails to load, and look for Theodore Geisel. )

Saturday, May 05, 2007

12 Picture book topics to avoid

via darcypattison.livejournal.com

Michael Sporn writes about Marionettes...

"Once Bil & Cora Baird had ruled the theatrical environs on TV (Bil & Cora Baird Show and Peter & the Wolf) , in theater (Flahooley, Baker Street) and on film (Sound of Music). Yet when the very successful scene in the film, Lili, where Leslie Caron talks to Bil Baird’s marionette, moved to Broadway as the musical, Carnival, it was Jim Henson who built the puppets for the show.
A sea change had happened. The marionette had become a hand puppet."

http://www.michaelspornanimation.com/splog/?p=1039