Monday, October 22, 2012

Monday, October 15, 2012

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Circus and Halloween Masks via Flickr



Flickr has a seemingly endless collection of vintage masks,  from The Wizard of Oz to creepy 1950s pulp-fiction looking characters. Those Dick Tracy comic strip faces are downright outsider-art weird.  

Above are Gomez, Lurch, and Uncle Fester from the Addams Family (yikes!). The Addams Family masks were used by the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus.  (Thank you to Brechtbug)


Thursday, October 04, 2012

Let's start with Vampire Boy's Good Night by Lisa Brown.

(Thanks Victoria!)

Dong-Sung Kim

Korean illustrator Dong-Sung Kim...
...read an interview with him here...

Margaret Wise Brown

"One can but hope to make a child laugh or feel clear and happy-headed as he follows the simple rhythm to its logical end. It can jog him with the unexpected and comfort him with the familiar, lift him for a few minutes from his own problems of shoelaces that won't tie, and busy parents and mysterious clock time, into the world of a bug or a bear or a bee or a boy living in the timeless world of a story."—Margaret Wise Brown