doodles - GalleyCat http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat The First Word On the Book Publishing Industry Copyright 2013 Sun, 19 May 2013 15:42:57 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Children’s Book Creators Celebrate National Doodle Day Publishers Albert Whitman & Company, Chronicle Books, Gibbs Smith Publishers, and Running Press, have joined together to celebrate this year’s National Doodle Day. In preparation for the May 12th event, several authors and illustrators of children’s books have donated doodles for its annual eBay auction.

Here’s more from the press release: “Daniel Pinkwater, Annie Barrows, Tom Lichtenheld, Calef Brown, Peter Reynolds, Eric Carle, Jon Scieszka, Mo Willems, and Lydia Bastianich all agreed to create unique doodles for the auction. Doodles can be viewed at doodledayusa.org until the launch of the eBay auction on May 12.”

Some authors, like Kurt Vonnegut, have attracted as much fame for their doodles as they have for their writing. Reportedly, this is the first year publishers have participated in National Doodle Day. The publishers will host public events on that day in the following cities: Chicago, Salt Lake City, and Sausalito.

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]]> Maryann Yin http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/children%e2%80%99s-book-creators-celebrate-national-doodle-day_b28976#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/children%e2%80%99s-book-creators-celebrate-national-doodle-day_b28976 http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/?p=28976 Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:18:24 +0000 Authors Who Doodled Flavorpill has collected the doodles of famous authors, including Sylvia Plath, David Foster Wallace, Vladimir Nabokov, Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett, Allen Ginsberg, Mark Twain, Henry Miller, Kurt Vonnegut, and Jorge Luis Borges.

The drawings ranged from insect portraits to nightmare images. Wallace drew one of the funnier pieces, doodling glasses and fangs on a photo of Cormac McCarthy.

Vonnegut (pictured with his artwork, via) incorporated many of his drawings into his books. He even had his own art gallery exhibitions. What author should illustrate their next book?

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]]> Maryann Yin http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/a-profile-of-authors-who-doodled_b23076#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/a-profile-of-authors-who-doodled_b23076 http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/?p=23076 Fri, 11 Feb 2011 07:05:22 +0000