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jon klassen

@burstofbeaden

3 years

A pinned tweet for the new book! So you can always find it & buy more of it:

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jon klassen

@burstofbeaden

2 years

made another little area

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jon klassen

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5 years

last year in a library in Alaska I read a folk tale in a random book on a random shelf & have been thinking about it since & today i wrote the librarian w/ no book title or author & in 2 hrs i had a scan of the story & cover in my inbox - librarians should be running everything.

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jon klassen

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3 years

Claudia Keep

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jon klassen

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4 years

drew some skull stuff last year & just made a folder for them.

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jon klassen

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7 years

i miss when things were advertised in void-deserts. you could sell anything in a void-desert.

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jon klassen

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7 years

shout-out to the smaller groups today in towns where it might not feel so unanimous. that takes guts.

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jon klassen

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2 years

fun fact: this page is mostly red because i couldn't figure out how to draw him here. I didn't want to draw angry eyes cause he just didn't look like himself & it was too scary, but the wide eyes on their own didn't do it. it was a lucky break that the hat was already blood red.

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2 years

The most dramatic moment in 21st Century literature

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jon klassen

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5 years

skull at home

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jon klassen

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4 years

Richard Boseman

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jon klassen

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6 years

instagram has kind of turned into a game where you try & like the photo that initially shows up before the app refreshes & the non-linear timeline swallows it forever

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jon klassen

@burstofbeaden

5 years

@twinkiethekidd @scotty_13_ and like, really reading it to them. making sure they see the pictures. it's really something.

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jon klassen

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2 years

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jon klassen

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3 years

Ah Eric Carle. Nobody ever managed such a strong combination of bright life & dignity in the work. The books still feel like clear-eyed statements of design & deep love for the form. All I ever wanted to make was a cover as good as these. RIP.

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jon klassen

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2 years

Here is the cover for "The Skull". It's a 115 pages, told in five parts, and it's about a girl named Otilla who runs away from home and finds a house in the woods with a skull living in it. It comes out July 2023 from @Candlewick and I am pretty excited about it 💀

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jon klassen

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6 years

one thing I forgot in The Brave Little Toaster is when they taunt the air conditioner into having a heart attack & dying & then his body is just in the background afterward & nobody talks about it

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jon klassen

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4 years

ghost at a table - an oldie but I still like it

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jon klassen

@burstofbeaden

4 years

always wanted to make plastic kids dishes would anyone buy my plastic kids dishes

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jon klassen

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6 years

as a quick PS to that last stop-motion post, this is why it's so much damn fun. This is the whole set, and then the image we got. the moon is just foil stuck on the back and the water sparkles are little sequins. Joe made the boat in like...20 minutes.

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jon klassen

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5 years

s/o to the kids who weren't allowed to watch The Simpsons or Terminator or anything but this book was just left around the house like it was no big deal

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jon klassen

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6 years

found an old portfolio from about 10 years ago! I had forgotten about some things in it. Here are some "try-out" pieces for Fantastic Mr. Fox - didn't get the gig but man I wanted to work on that thing

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jon klassen

@burstofbeaden

5 years

I have been alerted that Jennifer Garner read my book to her bagels this morning & I will take it

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jon klassen

@burstofbeaden

5 years

got sent some pictures from the Beijing Book Fair where they made giant Triangle & Square bookshelves & their corresponding house doors. So so cool.

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jon klassen

@burstofbeaden

5 years

someone should do a book explaining to kids that for a long time we had phones in our houses that would ring & there was no way to tell who was calling & if you didn't pick it up you might never find out & if you were outside you wouldn't even know it ever happened

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jon klassen

@burstofbeaden

3 years

Maria Clara Eimmart

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jon klassen

@burstofbeaden

3 years

I did know why we even make new picture books what’s even the point we’re never gonna catch stuff like this

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jon klassen

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4 years

did a test the other day for an idea about books where you'd only get one color plus black. picture books can feel heavy & serious & i'm trying to see if there are prompts to get me to make dumb ones instead. i haven't actually written any of these but nobody steal them anyway ok

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jon klassen

@burstofbeaden

6 years

it's so crazy that Lotte Reiniger made a feature-length film that looked like this 10 years before Disney made anything that long

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jon klassen

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5 years

don't have a new thing but this is a test I did for a future book project. I was/am kind of a wimp about scary movies but scary picture books were always my favorite - really hoping to make one someday. Happy Halloween you guys!

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jon klassen

@burstofbeaden

5 years

💀

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jon klassen

@burstofbeaden

6 years

one fun thing about school visits is when you answer kids questions & you pick a kid by describing their shirt & then they look down at their shirt as if they are also seeing it for the first time

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jon klassen

@burstofbeaden

6 years

this isn't for anything, just did it. happy...thanksgiving?

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jon klassen

@burstofbeaden

6 years

100% sincerely jealous of these covers

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jon klassen

@burstofbeaden

5 years

💀

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jon klassen

@burstofbeaden

6 years

Go Dog Go! told me that parties were going to be like this & i think it's why i never liked actual parties when i got old enough to go to them cause this still looks like the perfect speed of party

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jon klassen

@burstofbeaden

4 years

when you never need help

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jon klassen

@burstofbeaden

4 years

LATE SUBMISSION FORGIVEN DUE TO HIGH QUALITY

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jon klassen

@burstofbeaden

5 years

the "should billionaires exist" thing is tricky cause I dont think I can imagine a billion dollars. I think when I *think* I'm imagining a billion dollars I'm probably imagining like maybe 25 million and thats where my imagination stops & even then like where are you buying pants

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jon klassen

@burstofbeaden

3 years

got to do a library poster so that's that for the bucket list i guess goodbye everybody (you can buy it here there's a bookmark too )

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jon klassen

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6 years

read too much news before bed so I'm looking up old Ikea catalogs to calm down & it's actually really working

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jon klassen

@burstofbeaden

5 years

got Winnie the Pooh for the boys & I'd forgotten about this amazing joke where Piglet's house has this sign in front & he thinks it's because his grandfather who built it was named Trespassers William

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jon klassen

@burstofbeaden

5 years

Vlastimil Beneš

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jon klassen

@burstofbeaden

4 years

ah, Enzo Mari died. I looked up to him so much.

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jon klassen

@burstofbeaden

7 years

borzoi dogs look pret-ty mystical from far away but then when they get closer up they're here to party

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jon klassen

@burstofbeaden

3 years

a tree for you

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jon klassen

@burstofbeaden

2 years

island area for you

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jon klassen

@burstofbeaden

6 years

re-watched the disney Robin Hood the other night & it's kind of a quiet miracle of a movie, pacing-wise. it's so great and lazy, many scenes of just talking, almost no action. It takes really sensitive acting to pull that off.

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jon klassen

@burstofbeaden

5 years

Isaac turned 2 yesterday & there are so many changes. Like last summer he liked sparklers & now it turns out he does not

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jon klassen

@burstofbeaden

7 years

this guy makes sweaters of things & places & then goes to them with the sweaters on & the sweaters are really great

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jon klassen

@burstofbeaden

7 years

sheesh I saw Coraline came out 8 years ago this week - I worked on it doing set & prop design! a very educational few years.

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jon klassen

@burstofbeaden

6 years

"are these the brightest lightbulbs available?" "Yes sir" "Bright enough to hurt your eyes when you turn them on?" "A little" "I should mention, they are going in hotel room bathrooms" "Ah, why didn't you say so" *opens secret door to room in the back of lightbulb store*

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jon klassen

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4 years

trying to decide whether the three-panel whale is funny or better or just greedy. He looks more normal in two panels, but note the spout in the middle one?

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jon klassen

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6 years

a new edition of Myst but all the puzzles are just different hotel-room shower controls

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jon klassen

@burstofbeaden

5 years

did these quick guys for a thing and now the thing is changed so this is it for them 🕊️

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jon klassen

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3 years

an old winter drawing to go with all the nice winter pictures people have (s’pretty warm in Los Angeles today)

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jon klassen

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4 years

Hans Emmenegger

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jon klassen

@burstofbeaden

4 years

got a book on African quilts in the mail last night if anyone want to see some African quilts

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jon klassen

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2 years

one thing about the last while is that any personal work had to be made with two toddlers climbing on me so they had to be simple & forgiving & low-tech, but I like the stuff that came out of that (for the wood stuff they only get cut sometimes & never TOO deep)

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jon klassen

@burstofbeaden

4 years

cover for the next book! I had to write a thing describing it. "A book of five short connected stories about two characters in which they don't go anywhere or do almost anything, but also it involves a meteor, time travel, aliens, jealousy, betrayal, and death."

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jon klassen

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4 years

i feel like tech guys watch "2001" the same way you hear that stock broker dudes love "the wolf of wall street" & it's like guys you have to watch the ends of these movies

The Verge

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4 years

Tesla dropping HAL 9000 "Sentry Mode" graphic in new software update

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jon klassen

@burstofbeaden

3 years

got some of those library posters. I like em 😎 (link is in the linktree in the bio still)

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jon klassen

@burstofbeaden

3 years

little area

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jon klassen

@burstofbeaden

3 years

if this were a greeting card i assume there would be situations where it was useful to receive it

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jon klassen

@burstofbeaden

4 years

when "This It Not My Hat" won the Caldecott, Tomie dePaola, who I'd only met once briefly, sent me a long handwritten letter of congratulations/welcome & talked about the book & it was almost more crazy than winning the damn thing. I'll miss waving at him sheepishly across rooms.

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jon klassen

@burstofbeaden

5 years

one thing to try if the baby is screaming in the car is to blast Sandstorm by Darude. Either the baby is so confused that he quiets down or the continued screaming just feels like he's that guy in the club who would scream during Sandstorm by Darude

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jon klassen

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3 years

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jon klassen

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4 years

always nice when a scientist in 1888 studying twilights decides to pick up some colored wax from the ground or something & make drawings that are better than anything you'll ever do ( )

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jon klassen

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5 years

the opening to Kiki's Delivery Service is unreal. In like 5 minutes they establish that witches casually exist & they leave home at a certain age, a tearjerker scene saying goodbye to her dad, her personality as a confident goof, in the air & on her way & THEN the title comes up

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jon klassen

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3 years

Josef Scharl

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jon klassen

@burstofbeaden

5 years

initial stab at a bigger thing

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jon klassen

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6 years

a few months ago Joe Schmidt & me got some time to work on some ideas I'd been wanting to try out. The animals were made by Victor Dubrovsky & the sets were mostly sticks we got in Griffith Park.

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jon klassen

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4 years

making things for kids shows you they’re comfy with abstraction bc they’re used to not totally understanding & then you grow out of it in your 20s when you think everything is explainable & then later you grow back into abstraction when you realize youll never understand anything

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jon klassen

@burstofbeaden

5 years

solidarity today with all the illustrators who have to go through the "oh I can't wait to see YOUR pumpkin cause you can draw" & you let them down so much cause pumpkin carving is different

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jon klassen

@burstofbeaden

5 years

Ah man, John Burningham - we're not gonna do any better than him ever ever. RIP

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jon klassen

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5 years

Ellison Hoover

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jon klassen

@burstofbeaden

2 years

I got to do the cover for the Fall Books issue of @nybooks . Thanks very much to @Shaptonia for having me on and showing me the way.

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jon klassen

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3 years

sometimes i see some people saying they knew of one of the "hat" books but did not know there were others, which is understandable, we're all busy people. but, in case it is of interest, there are THREE of them & you can even buy them in a set! i will sum them up for you:

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jon klassen

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3 years

EVERYONE - i have a new project, with my mom. We're making felt pennants to go in your houses. You can buy them. I'm designing them & she is making them HERSELF. In her HOUSE. 12x20 and 12x18 &, if i do say so myself, they are beautiful

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jon klassen

@burstofbeaden

5 years

All three The Wolf, The Duck & The Mouse pins are up!

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jon klassen

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3 years

drawing cars is hard, but trucks are fine. trucks in the dark even better.

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4 years

me reading my own book to my kid "wait, see, the bear SAYS he DIDN'T eat the rabbit but remember...you're not looking, this is really funny, come on. I've seen other kids laugh at this. Now. Remember what the rabbit said before. Look at the page, Isaac."

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jon klassen

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4 years

saw this getting passed around today & finally took a look. i don't think i really understood how isolation combined with recovered people not passing it on is what kills things like this but it's a beautiful explanation

These simulations show how to flatten the coronavirus growth curve

The early trickle of new coronavirus infections has turned into a steady current. By creating simple simulations, we can see how to slow it down.

www.washingtonpost.com

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jon klassen

@burstofbeaden

4 years

*sitting at my desk, 6 old cups of tea in various molding states around the computer, a half-eaten baby nutrient bar in the wacom pen holder, wearing the hoodie i slept in & 4 tabs open about wood-whittling tools* "sooo you guys wanna work from home eh? lemme give you some tips."

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jon klassen

@burstofbeaden

4 years

usually around now I’m on book tour by myself or with Mac & later in the month we finish off with this one and leave a gym of second graders with their mouths open (and often we hear of a run on this book at the library after). i still can’t believe it’s only 5 spreads long.

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jon klassen

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2 years

“Ghost Goes In The Door” (an oldie now but still a goodie imo)

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jon klassen

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5 years

Mom & I made August a quilt (in that Mom made absolutely all of it). ❤️

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5 years

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6 years

look at this rug

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jon klassen

@burstofbeaden

2 years

oh man just got reminded of these boat covers. i think they preceded any books I actually worked on. 2007? I was hoping you could do books without having to draw characters. would still like to do "Regular Boat" someday, even out of context.

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jon klassen

@burstofbeaden

5 years

sometimes you get the question about pros/cons to illustrating other people's things & a big pro is that you end up roughing out pictures that you yourself would probably not have come up with on your own

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jon klassen

@burstofbeaden

5 years

been thinking lately about the comparable advantages to puppet animation vs stop motion & this is absolutely the number one reason I would choose puppets.

Joe Rumrill

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I bet one of the greatest thrills you can have as a Muppet performer is doing a scene where you just chuck ‘em

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jon klassen

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4 years

curious if it's just the midwesterners/Canadians who are really stressed out because the masks block the small almost apologetic non-smile/smile you give to strangers so they know you're not a murderer

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jon klassen

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4 years

new test for an olllllddd idea

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jon klassen

@burstofbeaden

5 years

new boy! August Ryan Klassen showed up pretty late on Sunday & everyone is doing great.

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jon klassen

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4 years

that ghost table drawing led to this little story, again pretty old now, but it’s actually an idea I had in third grade. I’ve been trying to expand it into a book but it’s tough to expand without ruining it - it makes me kind of emotional just the way it is.

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jon klassen

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7 years

i will help with the dishes as soon as i finish my annual hand-turkey

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3 years

little area #2

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3 years

GOT AN ADVANCE COPY IN THE MAIL. 5 connected short stories, 96 pages. It came out pretty good. Out in April but we’ll start pre-order campaign stuff soon 😬

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jon klassen

@burstofbeaden

7 years

i don't think i can make up any more passwords. i think i've made up all the passwords i can.

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5 years

Algernon Newton

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