DON'T PIGEONHOLE MO

Sketchbooks.

I'm always talkin'

about sketchbooks.

About how you oughta be 

filling them up with

drawings

doodles

ideas

notes

thoughts

stuff

scribbles

photos

scraps

musings

clippings

and

just,

you know,

KEEPING

A

SKETCHBOOK!

Because

SKETCHBOOK!

And because they're great places

for future projects

to gestate.

Case in point,

Mr. Mo Willems.

(yeah... him again)

For the last two decades,

Mo has created a mini-sketchbook

that he's printed for friends, family, enemies,

clients, attractive ladies and anyone who asked.

Over the years these sketchbooks have served as a

business

slash

holiday card

slash

 'zine

slash

creative laboratory

slash

overstock warehouse

for all things Mo.

And it was one of these

sketchbooks

that gave birth

to a bird that would eventually

launch Mr. Willems'

semi-successful 

book career:

And now,

since Mo

isn't releasing another book

in the next 

3 hours...

There's

THIS:

All twenty of Mo's

sketchbooks

featured in one big book! 

Actually, I don't have all of them.

But I've got a bunch:

They're a fascinating look into

Mo's creative process.

And a way to see how some of his

experiments later evolved into

books.

Like Pigeon:

And Goldilocks:

And Leonardo:

One of the things I've always

admired about Mo

(aside from his taste in friends)

is how his creative mind never rests.

He's always trying something new.

Challenging himself with:

A looser style:

A simpler aesthetic:

Stamp art:

and commuting penguins:

My favorite part of the book features Mo's 

early cartoon sketchbooks:

Many moons ago,

while looking through Mo's latest book,

my wife expressed great love for this

drawing:

I asked Mo for the original

so I could give it to her as a gift.

And he was nice enough to sell it to me for 

$74,000.

He's still waiting for the check.

Get this book.

There's a lot to

love

learn from

and

admire

in there.