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Small Book, Big Ideas: Harold and the Purple Crayon and the Art of Imagination

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By Philip Nel
| Literary Hub Verified
Crockett Johnson’s Harold and the Purple Crayon (1955) was Prince’s favorite childhood book. It is why Prince played purple guitars, favored purple fashion, and strongly identified with the color purple. Harold has inspired improvisational theatre, experiments in virtual reality, and Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Richard Powers to become a writer.
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Unboxing How to Draw the World!

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By Philip Nel
| philnel.com
An unboxing video that answers two questions: The world is on fire. Why are you making another unboxing video? What is wrong with you, anyway? What took you so long to make the unboxing video for How to Draw the World: Harold and the Purple Crayon and the Making of a Children’s Classic? Wasn’t this book published a couple of months back? A dozen years ago, I began dreaming up a small book about Crockett Johnson’s Harold and the Purple Crayon.
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Boredom, blacklisting or new beginnings? Why Crockett Johnson ended Barnaby

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By Philip Nel
| Comics Journal Magazine Verified
Stories end. But comics typically exist in a perpetual present. True, there are exceptions: characters grow older in Frank King's Gasoline Alley, Lynn Johnston's For Better or for Worse, Tom Batiuk's Funky Winkerbean, and Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury. However, comic-strip characters usually move through time without succumbing to its effects. Days pass. Seasons change. But the characters remain as they have always been. That was true of Crockett Johnson's Barnaby until its final month.
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