I just spent some time with this wonderful book. Yes, I know it is a children's book, but the fold-out images are so wonderful and each personal narrative so inspiring - that it is worth a look for anyone.
You'll have to view the images for yourself ( and read how many of the artists were inspired by comics), but here are a few quotes that I liked:
"...we are all connected by our pictures. Artists who are working today, making paintings and picture books and cartoons, and those who lived hundreds and even thousands of years ago...all speak to us ." Mordicai Gerstein
"Illustration is an enlargement, an interpretaton of the text, so that the reader will comprehend the words better....You must never illustrate exactly what is written. You must find the space in the text so that the pictures can do the work. Then you must let the words take over where words do it best. It's a funny kind of juggling act." Maurice Sendak
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