You Can Never Find a Rickshaw When It Monsoons: The World on One Cartoon a Day
by:
Mo Willems (author)
Dave Barry (author)
On June 1, 1990, less than a week after graduating college, Mo Willems embarked on a yearlong trip around the world. Travelingwith only a notebook, pen and ink, and one change of clothes, he spent the next twelve months backpacking across more than thirty countries.At the end of each day, he drew...
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On June 1, 1990, less than a week after graduating college, Mo Willems embarked on a yearlong trip around the world. Travelingwith only a notebook, pen and ink, and one change of clothes, he spent the next twelve months backpacking across more than thirty countries.At the end of each day, he drew the one event that stuck out in his mind the mostfrom the sublime to the ridiculous.Recently annotated by the illustrator and featuring a foreword from best-selling humor writer Dave Barry, You Can Never Find a Rickshaw When It Monsoons: The World on One Cartoon a Day is a unique snapshot of an artists coming-of-age as he tries to understand the world around him.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780786837472 (0786837470)
Publish date: April 25th 2006
Publisher: Hyperion
Pages no: 396
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Humor,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Funny,
Travelogue,
Adult,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Comics
It's a charming collection of sketches from an almost year-long trip around the world. The doodles themselves are simple and amusing, and they each have comments below that give them some background.There are far better books of this sort, I wasn't blown away by this one.
An older Mo Willems looks back on the cartoons he drew while traveling around the world for a year. Naturally, they’re pretty funny.
I respect the effort and discipline it took Willems to make and save these daily cartoons. And, it's an interesting document of an artist's development. But I admit, I'm so fond of his more polished books, that I was left wanting some ineffable more.
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