Maurice Sendak, 1928-2012

Maurice Sendak

1928-2012 

"I didn't sleep with famous people or movie stars or anything like that. It's a common story: Brooklyn boy grows up and succeeds in his profession, period," he told the AP.

Mr. Sendak, died early Tuesday in Danbury, Conn., at age 83,
four days after suffering a stroke.

I could type out a bunch of words about this man but I would not do him justice.

Those who know me or have taken the time to read my past post know I have mentioned Mr. Sendak many times. He is an inspiration to me and a loss to the publishing world 

I found this post from it gives a good overview of his life I decided to just put up a handful of illustrations from varies books he illustrated:

Maurice Sendak, 1928-2012:| The Portland Press Herald
New York Times
"The Colbert Report" very funny!

He kind of looks like his character's