Saturday, May 31, 2008

How To


DO YOUR STRIP is an on-line how-to exhibit. Participants were invited to create instructions on how to draw a new character, then draw a comic strip featuring this character. The above character is by Karine Bernadou. (Make sure to drag your cursor over the center panel of the EXAMPLES. )

Thanks to Drawn.

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Sunday, May 25, 2008

See Bob's sweet logo for Just One more Book!! (Then check out his caricature gallery)

From Mark and Andrea:

This July, the Just One More Book!! children’s book podcast will celebrate its second anniversary and 400th episode of promoting children’s books and literacy. As part of our celebration, we are redesigning our website and would like the new look to include artwork that promotes a love of reading.


Illustrators of all backgrounds are invited to submit a logo-like illustration that can be resized nicely and featured on our website for everyone to enjoy. Illustrators submitting artwork will be invited to be guests of Just One More Book!! to talk about their design, the creative process and how their submission helps to promote a love of reading.



We ask that all submissions be emailed to justonemorebook@gmail.com in JPG, PNG or GIF format, 500×500 pixels on or before June 15, 2008. Please let us know if you have any questions.

See a wonderful Polly Dunbar extravaganza

and interview at seven impossible things before breakfasts.

Mo Willems

'Elephant and Piggie', an audio performance by Mo and Michele Norris.

Book trailer for


Jeremy Tankard's Me Hungry

Thanks to Betsy at schoollibraryjournal.com where you can see a second Me Hungry trailer.

Everything Happens to Stuey

Scholastic Book Club from the 60s & 70s

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Book Launch Party!


and art exhibit for 'Mermaids On Parade'
Wednesday, June 11, 2008 from 6 - 9 pm. For all ages. Free.

The book's author-illustrator, Melanie Hope Greenberg will be autographing her picture book about a Coney Island tradition. The art exhibition extends to July 6, 2008. Special Kids Program on Saturday June 28, 2008 from 1-2pm. Free! Where? you say?
SUPERFINE, 126 Front Street Brooklyn, NY 11201, 718.243.9005

Attention Illustrators!


This July, the Just One More Book!! children's book podcast will celebrate its second anniversary and 400th episode of promoting children's books and literacy. As part of our celebration, we are redesigning our website and would like the new look to include artwork that promotes a love of reading.
Illustrators of all backgrounds are invited to submit a logo-like illustration that can be resized nicely and featured on our website for everyone to enjoy. Illustrators submitting artwork will be invited to be guests of Just One More Book!! to talk about their design, the creative process and how their submission helps to promote a love of reading.
We ask that all submissions be emailed to
justonemorebook@gmail.com in JPG, PNG or GIF format, 500×500 pixels on or before June 15, 2008. Let us know if you have any questions.
Thanks and Happy Reading!

Andrea & Mark--
www.JustOneMoreBook.com

Saturday, May 03, 2008

The Ten Cent Plague

An interview with author David Hajdu on BookTV. Cover by Charles Burns.

Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy


at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 7, 2008–September 1, 2008 (More Vogue photos here.) AND A SLIDE SHOW HERE
The Second Annual Animation Book Look Celebration, Saturday, May 17, 2008

THE STORY OF FERDINAND



More about Ferdinand at collectingchildrensbooks.blogspot.com.

(And while visiting Collecting Children's Books, see Monosyllabic Monographs of Antediluvian Yesteryears about "An odd fad in past kid books.")

Reminder

Today is Free Comic Book Day. (The store picks the comic book. Titles run from Jughead and All-Star Superman to X-Men and Sonic the Hedgehog.) http://www.midtowncomics.com/custompages/fcbd2008.asp

jpeg from confessions123.blogspot.com
Japanese Crepe Paper Books
from The Baika Women's University Collection of Crêpe Paper Books in Japan (via flickr and BibliOdyssey)
...more than one hundred and fifty works produced between about 1880 and 1940 in English, Spanish, French, German and Portuguese editions.

Lightly moistened Japanese paper was wrapped around a vertical cylindrical form and crinkled by pressing the paper down to the bottom of the cylinder. The crinkled paper was removed, opened, and wrapped around the cylinder again in a different direction. This was repeated eight or ten times. By this laborious method, soft, crêpe-like paper was finally produced. In the process, the size of the Japanese paper was reduced to about 80%. The pages were assembled and bound with silk thread.

Thanks again to Ms. Bird for the link.