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(This trend was also mirrored in her own life she had a sibling named Lila Fink.) Oh yes, and she can sit above Roz from Frasier on that list of notable Wisconsinites (Wisconsonians?) you've been working on all these years. She had a fondness for giving characters punchy, unlikely names, such as Shrimps Marinara or Augie Kunkel, or the mother in Figgs and Phantoms, who is named Sister. These books also reflect her own scattered interests, from Renaissance art to economics, and they're written in a manner that initially seems absolutely guileless, but which, on closer inspection, turns out to present a shifting selection of peeling surfaces: facades. Raskin is a wonderfully comfortable jumble: a daughter of the Great Depression who made a mint on the stock market, a children's writer who admitted she only read true crime, an intensely guarded citizen who transformed so many of the people she knew into characters for her books. Would she had found that label harmonious? Ellen Raskin: 'Someday, I would like to make a study of illustrators as writers.' I wonder if she'd have been happier with the idea that she had become, in a strange, circuitous manner, more of a designer. Raskin the illustrator was never happy defining herself as Raskin the writer, I gather. More importantly, I think they have a lot to say about games - and even about the place that video games are at today. They're absolutely novels, and they're absolutely games. They're purer, but also less formal in their playfulness. That might give you the impression that they were game books of some kind - books where you control the direction of the story by hopping from one numbered paragraph to the next, or in which you roll dice to battle monsters. Four of them, published between 19, which she described collectively as puzzle-mysteries.

She created illustrated children's books too, and then, in the last 15 years of her life, she wrote largely un-illustrated children's novels. They're both striking and playful, direct and yet somehow unexpected. She had over a thousand book jackets to her name, and you can see a handful of the best here. What I found was treasure.Įllen Raskin spent the majority of her career as an illustrator. Strange!" How did this oddball phrasing take root? Last year, I gave in and googled it. "The sun sets in the west (just about everyone knows that), but Sunset Towers faced east. Dim and flickering, I see it waiting for me at the edge of a vast, silver lake.

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Date of Publication: September 30th 1989.Book Genre: Childrens, Comics, Fiction, Humor, Picture Books, Sequential Art.

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