Did you know there’s a new biography of Shel Silverstein out? Did you? I sure didn’t, and I try hard to keep on top of stuff like that. I bet you did know about it, and deliberately kept that information from me. That would be just like you.
Jim Beckerman at The Bergen Record must have known about it though, because he have an interview with the author, Lisa Rogak:
Rogak, 45, now a New Hampshire resident, has done unauthorized biographies before: of diet doctor Robert Atkins, of “Da Vinci Code” author Dan Brown, of Stephen King (pending).
But Silverstein, of all her subjects, fits her like a glove.
The creator of the hit songs “A Boy Named Sue” and “Cover of the Rolling Stone,” and the children’s books “The Giving Tree” and “Where the Sidewalk Ends” was a man of many strange — and strangely mutating — interests. “The thing I like,” he was quoted as saying, “is something else.”
The same thing could be said of Rogak.
December 5th, 2007 at 9:03 am
I don’t get it, why are these people (I’ve never heard of) of interest to Comics Newsarama?
December 5th, 2007 at 9:25 am
Shel Silverstein was a well-known cartoonist and author of children’s books, among many other things: The Giving Tree, Where the Sidewalk Ends, etc.
December 5th, 2007 at 9:38 am
Ta Kevin - I saw the children’s books mentioned, just don’t see that he had any connection to comics - we don’t usually do kids’ literature here, do we?
I read that title as A Boy Named She, thought it was going to be crossdressing fun.
December 5th, 2007 at 9:41 am
“we don’t usually do kids’ literature here, do we?”
If there’s cartooning involved we often (sometimes?) do.
December 6th, 2007 at 10:41 am
Wasn’t he one of the examples cited by McCloud as a great sequential artist who simply wasn’t known for being involved with comics because of the nature of the American market?