![]() I moved to another publisher with Ludlow Laughs, the story of a grumpy guy who laughs in his sleep. Somebody told me that Ellsworth was a story about "being yourself." I never realized it had a moral. ![]() When he gets home, he throws off his clothes and acts like a dog, which is fine, until some fellow teachers discover this and he loses his job. ![]() The next book, Ellsworth, was about a dog who teaches economics at a university. Frances Foster, a wonderful editor at Random House, saw something in that book and signed me up. It was two sentences long (which counts, by the way). When that failed, I wrote a story for kids to go with my pictures ( If Snow Falls). When I graduated, I hauled my pile of doodles into the offices of a bunch of editors, with the wild notion that somebody might publish them. I studied painting, sculpture and filmmaking, but what I loved doing most-in my spare time-was drawing cartoons and comic strips. I went to college at The Cooper Union School of Art in New York City. I did that for the New York Times Op Ed page when I was still in high school. No surprise my first published drawing was a pack of rats running along a highway (The Rat Race). My early drawings were very animated: a lot of stuff zipping around, airplanes, racing cars, football players. In our house, there was always an art project going on. I grew up in Nyack, New York, just up the street from the Hudson River.
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