“I liked this book because it was funny and a little bit scary. I rate this book 15 out of 15 stars….” READ MORE HERE
Thank you to Creative Scotland for funding animation!
We’re thrilled to thank Creative Scotland for giving our stop-motion animator, Eleanor Stewart a grant for her animation work for the documentary.
Introducing our stop animation artist – working with book pages to bring the story to life!
Introducing our lovely animator Eleanor Stewart, who is creating a stop animation for the documentary. Working with book pages, she’s helping us tell the story of Norton Juster and Jules Feiffer and their creation of The Phantom Tollbooth.
We’re honored to add her to our crew page where you can check out a short bio. She’s working with us from Glasgow, putting together beautiful props against a lanscape of words – and making sure our film stays on target with the fun and style of the beloved book we’re celebrating.
Here’s a teaser, and we’ll be posting more production shots of the animation soon, so keep posted!
David Hyde Pierce reads from the Doldrums
David Hyde Pierce, actor and voice of The Phantom Tollbooth Audio Book, reads us some of his favorite passages. With which we hope to get you unstuck from any weekly Doldrums!
Lovely article on Norton Juster in The Independent
Interview with Norton Juster and David Hahn for The Independent:
“Some people are very easy to interview. Norton Juster is not one of them. He’s delightful and articulate, but listening to the recording of our time together, it’s striking how much more interesting his answers are than my questions.”
‘Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language’ at MoMA – would make the Phantom Tollbooth proud!
“MoMA assembles works by artists and artist’s groups who make written and spoken communication intensely physical.
Just through the main gallery doors, a selection of Paul Elliman’s “Found Fonts” — silver hoop earrings, bits of cardboard and other everyday objects shaped like letters and punctuation marks — occupies a large set of glass cases, bringing to mind the word bazaar in “The Phantom Tollbooth.”
Beautiful 3D book art brings The Phantom Tollbooth to life
Get it? It’s a bee!
This is similar to the animation that we are working on for the documentary! So great to see people thinking alike and these are just beautiful!
Jules Feiffer Noir Graphic Novel on the way!
Jules Feiffer, Pulitzer-Prize winning cartoonist best known for his long running Village Voice comics strip, screenwriter, playwright, acclaimed adult and children’s author, and a pioneering witness to the birth of the American comic book industry, will publish Kill My Mother, his first original graphic novel, in Fall 2013 with the Liveright publishing division of W. W. Norton. More here…
CNN Red Chair: Norton Juster’s guide to talking to children
Jules Feiffer: Exhibition and Book Signing in Chicago
Jules Feiffer Book Signing and Conversation
Jean Albano Gallery
215 W. Superior
Chicago, IL 60610
April 7th 12:00pm – 3:00pm
