{"id":2406,"date":"2012-08-16T00:01:13","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T06:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2406"},"modified":"2012-08-16T00:01:15","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T06:01:15","slug":"what-i-did-at-kirkus-last-thursday-featuring-jordan-crane-etienne-delessert-matt-furie-lisa-hanawalt-amy-martin-clare-rojas-and-vladimir-vagin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2406","title":{"rendered":"What I Did at Kirkus<\/em> Last Thursday, Featuring Jordan Crane, Etienne Delessert, Matt Furie, Lisa Hanawalt, Amy Martin, Clare Rojas, and Vladimir Vagin"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“…She cries tears in a bottle she keeps in her boot.”
— From Jordan Crane’s<\/a><\/strong> <\/em>Keep Our Secrets (To Be Read in a Whisper)<\/a><\/strong>,
a 2012 McMullens’ title<\/em>
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Last Thursday at Kirkus<\/em>, I chatted with Brian McMullen, who created the McMullens children’s book imprint over at McSweeney’s<\/em><\/a><\/strong>, now in its second year. Brian serves as Art Director and imprint editor and is the namesake for the imprint. That link is here<\/a><\/strong>, if you missed it and are interested.<\/p>\n

Today, I follow-up, as always, with some art. This time I’ve got some illustrations from a handful of McMullens titles’, both from this year and last. <\/p>\n

Enjoy. <\/p>\n

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“Josette says: ‘Want to play with me? What’s your name?’
The little girl says: ‘My name is Jacqueline.'”
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Spread and cover from Eug\u00e8ne Ionesco’s<\/a><\/strong> <\/em>Stories 1, 2, 3, 4<\/a><\/strong>,
illustrated by Etienne Delessert<\/a><\/strong> (September 2012)<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

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(Click either image to see spread in its entirety)<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n


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Illustrations and cover from Matt Furie’s<\/a><\/strong> <\/em>The Night Riders<\/a><\/strong> (August 2012)<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

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“‘What’s your name?’ asked Theo. ‘I am Benny,’ said the walrus,
‘and I am most pleased to meet you.'”
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Spread and cover from Arthur Bradford’s<\/a><\/strong> <\/em>Benny’s Brigade<\/a><\/strong>,
illustrated by Lisa Hanawalt<\/a><\/strong> (August 2012)<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

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“HERE COMES THE CAT!”
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Spread and cover from Frank Asch’s<\/a><\/strong> <\/em>Here Comes the Cat!<\/a><\/strong>,
illustrated by Vladimir Vagin<\/a><\/strong> (July 2011)<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

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“…and under the stars and streetlamps there is color everywhere…”
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Spread and cover from Amy Martin’s<\/a><\/strong> <\/em>Symphony City<\/a><\/strong> (July 2011)<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

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“His one question asked and answered, he walked past the light, into a field where there were many animals, of all shapes and sizes,
in colors he had never seen before….
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Illustration and cover from Sheila Heti’s<\/a><\/strong> <\/em>We Need a Horse<\/a><\/strong>,
illustrated by Clare Rojas<\/a><\/strong> (July 2011)<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

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Absolutely all images are used with permission of McMullens.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“…She cries tears in a bottle she keeps in her boot.”— From Jordan Crane’s Keep Our Secrets (To Be Read in a Whisper),a 2012 McMullens’ title(Click to enlarge) Last Thursday at Kirkus, I chatted with Brian McMullen, who created the McMullens children’s book imprint over at McSweeney’s, now in its second year. Brian serves as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}