Exploring that element is why I started in comics.” This space seems to be as flexible as either words or pictures. It can be intellectual, or a logical story point, or emotional. I'm drawn to what is suggested by both the images and the text but remains un-mentioned by either. “I’m very interested in what words and pictures can do together that they can't do separately. He has won the Eisner Award for excellence in painting in comics. His comic books have been published by DC/Vertigo, Eclipse Books, NBM, Donald M. Muth studied stone sculpture in Japan, painting, print-making and drawing in Austria, Germany, and England but most of his artistic education came from informal apprenticeships with painters Ballory Barack and Jeffrey Jones. He had his first one-man exhibit of paintings and drawings at the invitation of Wilmington College when he was eighteen. His mother was an art teacher and she took him to museums all over the US. Muth was born Jand grew up in suburban Cincinnati, Ohio to teacher parents. 'Mo Willems.' Authors and Artists for Young Adults. When not writing, he enjoys hanging out with his family and friends and having a little pasta with a glass of wine.

Willems lives with his wife, Cheryl Camp, and daughter, Trixie, in Northampton, Massachusetts. His books have been translated into several languages. He has won two Theodor Seuss Geisel Medals and three Geisel Honors for his “Elephant and Piggie” books. He won six Emmy awards as a writer on Sesame Street. He is an author and illustrator and also an animator, having made more than 70 short films. Willems graduated from New York University Tisch School of Arts, with honors and started his career by traveling around the world for a year, drawing a cartoon every day which were later published in the book You Can Never Find a Rickshaw When it Monsoons. He spent some summers in Holland and developed his sense of humor through his Dutch ancestry and a stint doing stand-up in England. Willems enjoyed writing stories about his characters to share with others. Willems first became interested in cartoon art when he was just a child at age three or four he started to draw and create his own characters. Mo Willems was born Februin Chicago to Dutch immigrant parents and grew up in New Orleans.

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