Random House’s newly updated Seussville website – featuring my biography and timeline – recently went live. This is the first time I’ve written a piece for a corporation, but Dr. Seuss did it all the time. Though he published his first children’s book in 1937, he made his living through advertising … until the bestselling The
Just back from Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, which (as you may have read by now) is a fantastic adaptation of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s siÂx-volume series of graphic novels. This is why. Director Edgar Wright understands what O’Malley is trying to do. As in the books, the film treats narrative as a playful, allusive, genre-bending
A 1943 letter from Crockett Johnson. Asked about himself, he dodges the question.
Two high-school cartoons by Crockett Johnson. Neither has been seen since the 1920s.
If you don’t already read Richard Thompson’s Cul de Sac, you really should. This is one of the comic strips that will, in the future, be regarded as classic. It’s that good.