Maurice Sendak is gone.

Centipede Damascus

He was 83.



“I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can’t stop them. They leave me and I love them more.”

Antimatter

I just saw this on Facebook and hoped someone made a thread


Hell

PiptheFair

junior eau, yauch and now this?

my childhood is taking a beating

Squall

Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.

Gatsby

Noooooooooooooooooooooo

Butler For Life #1

I'm going to eat a bowl of Chicken Soup with Rice in memory.

Maurice Sendak was great.

Beasteh

fuuuuuck

Edcrab

I remember that he illustrated the Big Green Book, which was one of my all-time favourites as a kid.

He, and his art, will be missed

Langly

He recently did an awesome interview with stephen colbert, he looked great. Strokes are total bullshit.

joshofalltrades

Langly wrote: »

Strokes are total bullshit.

Yeah, they've really stagnated a lot since Is This It.

Sendak was my favorite author as a kid. Sad to hear his time came, but it sounds like he was getting to the age where something can happen and then you're gone. I'm glad he lived such a long, full life.

Legba

Everyone should watch his Colbert interview.

Part one

Part two

lostwords

This make me a sad panda.

Forar

The Colbert interviews are incredible.

I'm sorry to hear he's gone.

Fandyien

aww, man, what a horrible bummer

that letter about the kid eating the letter is just overwhelmingly charming though

Houk

Squall wrote: »

Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.

Everything about this quote is amazing

Centipede Damascus

Hunter

Now we know where the wild things are...they're dead.

alternatingAberration

Growing up this was one of my favorite books. I remember sitting on the floor of my grandparents' house, The Little Train That Could, a few books about a town of mice, an encyclopedia set, and this all out in front of me.

Dang. One more bit of my past is 6 feet under.

wirehead26

Kinda sad to hear he was so against e-books but WTWTA would be a pretty crappy read on a tablet I must admit.

Johnny Chopsocky

Junior Seau
Adam Yauch
Maurice Sendak

Death is going out of his way to fuck with my childhood and teenage years this last week.

KalTorak

I really liked the Night Kitchen book as a kid, but never knew how awesome as a person he was until the Colbert interview.

Larlar

Hunter wrote: »

Now we know where the wild things are...they're dead.

But where are they dead?

KalTorak

fuck you, wild things can't die


they're too wild

Kuribo's Shoe

somebody made a reference to wild things and someone being dead and for a minute I thought Tone Loc had died

that was a scary couple of minutes

but yeah this is sad too, rip

Sweeney Tom

Wild things don't die

They just disappear, only to be seen by the imaginative and those that wish hard enough

Sterica

I never read Sendak. Was more a Berenstein Bears kid.

Sendak was way cooler, though.

Melding

movie caught up with him eh?

that's too bad.

Tonkka

Sigh.

I'm going back to bed.

Goatmon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NmrNfzxfDk

Munkus Beaver

Rorus Raz wrote: »

I never read Sendak. Was more a Berenstein Bears kid.

Sendak was way cooler, though.

One of these days Poppa Bear is gonna just fucking snap.

alternatingAberration

Oh man I loved little bear!

Goatmon

I never really watched it until the summer one year, back during my high school years living with Dad.

I didn't have any friends during much of that time, so I spent a lot of time watching TV. In the morning, the only thing to watch was Nick Jr so I ended up catching a lot of kids stuff, and Little Bear struck a chord with me.

It was nice to find a cartoon that was really wholesome, and charming. Kind of like Winnie the Pooh.

Rehab

Hunter wrote: »

Now we know where the wild things are...they're dead.

Some things shouldn't be domesticated.

I Win Swordfights

Little Bear was a huge part of my childhood, I had every book and I watched the cartoon every morning before preschool

My friends and I even made our own soup once

Zombies Tossed My Salad!

Fuck.

My childhood is dying off.

mensch-o-matic

Goatmon wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NmrNfzxfDk

sendak did little bear? that was my SHIT

Lost Salient

Did you guys watch Really Rosie? Oh my gosh I loved it so much.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9Y3mWDkB6o

PiptheFair

Johnny Chopsocky wrote: »

Junior Seau
Adam Yauch
Maurice Sendak

Death is going out of his way to fuck with my childhood and teenage years this last week.

PiptheFair wrote: »

junior seau, yauch and now this?

my childhood is taking a beating

yeah

Grey Ghost

Man this is horrible

Should I watch the Wild Things movie? I've heard such wildly varying things about it

Slacker71

The movie was great

Sweeney Tom

Grey Ghost wrote: »

Man this is horrible

Should I watch the Wild Things movie? I've heard such wildly varying things about it

It's great