((Don’t forget, only on day until the sorta kinda Austin premier of "Dead Things" at Nueva Onda!))
remember a while ago, when i won the contest run in conjunction with Pinkwater’s "The Neddiad" by coming up with a snazzy slogan for Wentworthstein’s Shoelaces? Well, they have already sent me my prize of original artwork from the book, which I would like to show you now:
it’s a dinosaur. pretty spiffy, no?
i put it in a $1.49 frame that i got down at the Dollar Deals store, and hung it in a position of honor in my living room.
the artist is Calef Brown, an author and illustrator who has collaborated with daniel pinkwater in the past, and according to the information i have gleened from google, is actually a blue elephant. brown did seventy-one such drawings as chapter headings for the neddiad novel, but i can only presume that he chose the best one for me. because i’m a winner.
i friend of mine saw this picture and told me a story about how when she was in a bicycle circus that travelled throughout the northeast, they wrote daniel pinkwater and invited him to join the troop. pinkwater wrote back, declining on the grounds that he is a particularly large and un-athletic author.
everybody has got their pinkwater story.
