RIP Maurice Sendak

Greg

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/47335950/ns/today-books/

Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are has passed of stroke complications at age 83.

David_D

(Was making one at the same time, so I will cut and paste here and delete the other)

What an amazing talent and voice. And a disruptor, in the best way. I like the headline that the NYTimes went with--

Maurice Sendak, Children’s Author Who Upended Tradition, Dies at 83

Also, if you didn't see it, just a few months ago The Colbert Report did a two-part interview/visit with him that was excellent.

By chance, we just got our daughter (who is 20 months old) Where the Wild Things Are last week, and she absolutely loves it, and will really sit and get engrossed in it on her own, too, which she only does with certain books. We were just reading it together last night.

RIP.

John_Steed

I once played a wave in a stage production of Where the Wild Things Are - I was 7 then...

I can't count how many times I bought Sendak's books for myself, my family and for friends.

Glad that he got to be 83 years. RIP.

His work will live on.

Miraclemet

Comics + Maurice = one thing...

Greg

By far, Where the Wild Things Are is the family favorite of children's stories. Not just my kids, my wife and I, but my sisters and their kids, my brother, my parents, all seven of my cousins and their kids. The sun is out and shining but it just seems to be grey now. RIP Mr. Sendak.

Miraclemet

“And [he] sailed back over a year
and in and out of weeks
and through a day
and into the night of his very own room
where he found his supper waiting for him
and it was still hot” ...

David_D

Also (with a tip of the hat to The Beat for pointing towards this)

Art Spiegelman's cartoon, now posted in tribute, about a recent visit to Sendak.

Fade2Black