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Wild Things art better than movie?
» "Quit this life as soon as possible." -Maurice Sendak
Illustration by Nick Gazin
So, everyone's favorite on-the-shitter read creatively cashes in on all the annoyingly cute hubbub surrounding Where the Wild Things Are. You'd be silly to classify Sendak's work as anything but genius, ten sentences and all, and hard pressed to find anyone not affected by it in some aspect, so it probably wasn't hard to find 24 artists to visually communicate how they connected to the infamously beloved children's story once thought as too sinister and borderline demonic.
It's littered with some of the artworld's seasoned illustrators, including Tony Millionaire, Matt Furie, Ben Jones, Hellen Jo, Esther Pearl Watson, with personal favorite done by Vice's own Nick Gazin, who managed to make Max look like a perverted geezer!
You can find all this work compiled into a nice mini-mag nestled inside the new Vice issue and if you enjoy these illustrations like I do, get more at terrible yellow eyes, or go see the real thing.
And who knows, if not the children's book, maybe this movie will inspire the Max in all of us. But fuck if I'm going to actually fork the $15 and watch it (not this week anyway), not unlike dude who fantasizes watching Arcade Fire and Karen O battling, manicured quoiffs and all. I'm saving that fifteen bucks to see a close up of Willem Defoes' penis getget mutilated by a butcher knife. Thank you Lars Von Trier.
For those of you really getting into it, I'm still scratching my head as to how this $610 Max Suit is already sold out. Please explain.
Posted on October 15, 2009
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this may very well spawn much more children's literature inspired films, not unlike that comic book superhero craze
— karen on October 19, 2009
Dude, those were the Caldicott or Newbury Medals. More like Pulitzers for children's books.
— Nate D on October 19, 2009
So i saw it this weekend: good but pretty underwhelming. Was shot beautifully, puppets were great. Story moved slow (kids were heard asking their parents when it would end), Karen O's shrieks ruined an otherwise OK soundtrack and many critics are overlooking the fact they made it so Max runs away (as opposed to getting sent to his room). This seems pretty major since the result of him running away is an awesome fantasy land. Anyway, I give it an "Eh..."
— Always Right on October 19, 2009
nice composition on nick's
— 1 on October 17, 2009
remember those golden seal of approvals on kids book? It was like some award, the Oprah Book Club of children's books if you will. I want to see the movie adaptation of Where the Sidewalk Ends.
— Always Right on October 17, 2009