Crockett Johnson - 100th anniversary today!

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Married to Ruth Krauss for about 30 years, one of their books was "The
Carrot Seed." He died in 1975. His "Barnaby" admirers included Duke
Ellington and Dorothy Parker.

Stanford University is holding a two-day celebration of the
anniversary, as I mentioned yesterday:
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2006/october18/crockett-101806.html

http://www.k-state.edu/english/nelp/purple/biography.html
(biography with photos - note the query at the bottom)

Excerpt: "Like Barnaby and Harold (his two most famous characters),
Johnson was bald. Referring to his hairless head, he once remarked, 'I
draw people without hair because it's so much easier! Besides, to me,
people WITH hair look funny.' "

http://www.k-state.edu/english/nelp/purple/books.html
(Images of books - the complete bibliography, without images, has a
link at the top. Check out the links at the bottom - especially the
"Art" link about his mathematics paintings!)

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22crockett+johnson%22+
(book covers & cartoons)

Lenona.