You Can Never Finda a Rickshaw When it Monsoons: The World on One Cartoon a Day

You Can Never Finda a Rickshaw When it Monsoons: The World on One Cartoon a Day by Mo Willems, 393 pages.
Mo Willems took a trip around the world in 1991 and he put together a collection of cartoons, one from each day, recording his journey. The drawings are less polished than a lot of his work, but that shouldn't be too surprising.
Mo was backpacking, traveling as cheaply as possible and drawing the people and places that he found interesting.

Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant by Roz Chast

Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant by Roz Chast, 228 pages

New Yorker cartoonist, Chast tells the story of her parents' last years in a series of funny and touching (and crazy) illustrated vignettes. Her parents met, and married, and lived their lives together in the same small apartment in Brooklyn. Chast fled when she could, and recounts how, decades later, she reluctantly returns, with treks in from her suburban home increasing in frequency as her aging parents need (but don't necessarily want) more and more help and support.
Well worth the effort. The art is great and really conveys the anxiety, dread, and conflict in trying to deal with end-of=life issues while also dealing with the craziness that has been there all along.

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Don't pigeonhole me!

Don't pigeonhole me!: two decades of the Mo Willems sketchbook 279 pgs.

Mo Willems is a genius and here is the proof.  A guy who can run a pencil over a piece of paper and make something unforgettable.  Best known for his children's books, this collection shows his more adult side and boy is it funny!

Do yourself  favor and savor some of these.

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Don't Pigeonhole Me: Two Decades of the Mo Willems Sketch by Mo Willems

Don't Pigeonhole Me: Two Decades of the Mo Willems Sketchbook by Mo Willems, 279 pages.

Mo Willems is known in our house for the Pigeon books: Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog, etc., and the Knufflebunny books. He's also known by my sons for his TV work. We all think he's kind of a genius. It's nice to find that feeling shared and reinforced with this compilation of Willems's drawings and the collection of nice things that famous people have said about the man. It always feels good to stand with the famous.
This is a collection of yearly sketchbooks that Willems put together, at first for zine called Ersatz, and then as an ongoing project to amuse himself and his friends, and as part of his contract with Nickelodeon / Cartoon Network. The Pigeon came out of these annual collections, and he is featured here in an early version of Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, and as the narrator of the excellent story, "The Little Engine Who Couldn't."

Lots of fun. Some of it for grown-ups, but most of it suitable for older children and childish adults.
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