CDB? by the author, sculptor, cartoonist William Steig (1907 - 2003) is one of the best books i've seen since coming to school. In much of our work we are asked to 'design drawings' and try our best to understand the relationship between text and image. Like I've said before, the text gets much less attention than the images. CDB? has dozens of beautifully clear, entertaining examples of that relationship. While flipping through these pages I can feel my brain moving back and forth between the text - a series of letters used to convey words - and the illustrations. It's a great example of how much ink is actually needed to convey emotions and ideas. The subtle differences in faces, positions, movements and exclamations throughout the book are fun to pay attention to as you decipher the messages.
Here are some of my favorites:
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