...And Max said "No".Terribly sad news:
Maurice Sendak has died. (
h/t)
In addition to
his masterpiece, Sendak wrote or illustrated
a great many other wonderful children's books too. I mentioned one I dearly loved,
The Bat Poet, last year.
Rest in peace.
Update:
Via Gerry Canavan,
the blogger I steal the most links from the bestest blogger in the whole wide internets, here's
a New Yorker profile of Sendak from 2006, and here is
a two-page Art Spiegleman cartoon depicting a conversation he had with Sendak. Even if you don't have time for the former, I highly recommend the latter.
Update to the Update: The cartoon is apparently from a 1993 issue of
The New Yorker; and it was
co-drawn by Sendak and Spiegleman, rather than just Spiegelman reporting a conversation they'd had. (You can see both signatures at the bottom, Sendak on the left, Spiegleman on the right.) I learn both these facts
from Neil Gaiman, by whose good efforts (well, Tweeting) the cartoon was apparently unlocked upon Sendak's death. Well done, NG.
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yes.
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