(comic: Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal)
Category: Illustration
Claudia Kishi: Artisti, Junk Food Addict, and 90s Role Model
At Sadie Magazine, Yumi Sakugawa shares a completely awesome (and surprisingly touching) comic dedicated to everyone’s favorite artistic babysitter with the worst grammar skills. A glimpse at the Claudia goodness:
Sakugawa looks at great moments in Claudia Kishi history, as well as guesses what Claudia might be up to these days. Make sure to check out the whole post.
(H/T bookshelves of doom)
Links Galore
A few more cool links for this week:
- Contemporary YA Week at Stacked rounds up great reads featuring main characters of color.
- Running and writing: both require dedication and steady effort, both make you get out of bed early and reevaluate about your life choices.
- Major high fives to post post about book conversations we’re all sick of.
- Fellow 2014-er R.C. Lewis on how critique partners are like dating.
- Direwolf, direwolf, what do you see? And other Eric Carle-inspired stories for Game of Thrones fans.
- If you’re in Cambridge this weekend, check out Candlewick’s “From Screen to Book” picture book symposium. (via NCBLA)
- Two posts about Jane Austen adaptations, both of which include the Lizzie Bennet Diaries. I approve.
Gold Star! Way to Go! Smiley Face!
I need a few of these first novel encouragement stickers:
Although I honestly read “snickers” first, which might also be applicable. Check out the rest of Grant Snider’s hilarious Literary Consolation Prize cartoons here.
Pullman Gets Grimm
Philip Pullman + fairy tales + gorgeous art and animation?
So much yes.
Can’t wait to pick up his new book. If you can’t wait, check out Pullman’s thoughts on the Grimms and fairy tales here.
(via bookshelves of doom)
Links Galore
A few more cool links for today:
- A blog about handling the finance side of your writing career. I know I’m an adult because I saw this and thought “Oh yeah!”
- Name-dropping, your rescue dog, and other acknowledgment hilarity.
- Literary costumes are the coolest.
- Cornelia Funke on fairy tales.
- And you thought your book contract was confusing.
- Excellent post on book illustration and how it functions vs. non-narrative art.
The Pun is Mightier Than the Sword
Puns plus literature plus art? It’s like “things Annie likes” bingo. Mattias Adolfsson’s illustration rocks:
Click through to see the larger image for all the pun goodness, and make sure to check out Adolfsson’s other illustrations as well.
A Sacrifice to the Spider God and Other Children’s Book Classics
It’s not even 9:30 and it’s already feeling like one of those days. At least there are these new titles for children’s books based on their covers to keep me laughing. My favorites:
Make sure to click through to see the rest.
Animated Poetry
Another grey, drizzly day. Perfect time for a little humor and poetry, care of Billy Collins and his TED talk. Here, Collins reads his poems with some animated accompaniment. The videos are really lovely:
(H/T Book Riot)
100 Artists for Literacy
Love these redesigned book covers. They were created by 100 artists for DoeDeMee, a project dedicated to raising awareness of illiteracy. (For each poster version sold, a portion of the money is given to UNESCO projects in Africa.)
My favorite:
I might actually need this Northern Lights poster by Hamish Steele.
Check out the whole collection to find your favorite.