{"id":4406,"date":"2017-07-28T08:51:20","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T14:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4406"},"modified":"2017-08-08T08:59:51","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T14:59:51","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-weekplus-what-i-did-last-weekfeaturing-ed-young-and-barbara-decosta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4406","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at Kirkus<\/em> This Week,
Plus What I Did Last Week,
Featuring Ed Young and Barbara DaCosta"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“‘Shh! There he is,’ the captain whispered.
‘Row quiet. … Row fast. … Hold steady now—‘”<\/em>
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\nThis morning over at Kirkus<\/em>, I’ve got a picture book import from New Zealand. That is here<\/a><\/strong>. Woof. Woof. <\/p>\n

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Last week, I wrote here<\/a><\/strong> about Barbara Dacosta<\/a><\/strong> and Ed Young’s<\/a><\/strong> Mighty Moby<\/em> (Little, Brown, August 2017). I’ve got a bit of art from the book today, as well as some preliminary images and a few words (below) from Barbara about the book’s creation. <\/p>\n


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\nHere’s what Barbara had to say about the above three preliminary images: <\/p>\n

Mighty Moby<\/em>, like all books, had its own mysterious evolution — from sea monster to Moby Dick<\/em> story with an added twist. Ed first created the story line in pictures, and I was brought in later to add words. So it was a process “backwards” from typical picture-book making, in which an author writes a story and the publisher brings in an artist to create illustrations for that story.<\/p>\n

These early sketches were in pencil, charcoal, and paper, respectively on paper about the size of business cards.<\/p>\n

These studies gave Ed a chance to work on points of view, color and texture, emphasis, and pacing. When I began writing, after reading through Moby Dick<\/em>, I made small dummies from copies of Ed’s art studies, so I could play with the flow of the words and see how the words would interact with the art and page turns. In the end, I realized that both Ed and I had used collage techniques, inadvertently following the same path that Herman Melville had followed in creating Moby Dick<\/em>, as he drew from many sources and styles of writing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n


 

\nThere’s more information here<\/a><\/strong> about the creation of this book.
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Another final illustration from the book<\/em>
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MIGHTY MOBY. Text copyright \u00a9 2017 by Barbara DaCosta. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2017 by Ed Young and reproduced by permission of the publisher, Little, Brown and Company, New York.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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