![]() ![]() In children’s books this ability has a natural home.” It’s always been easy for me to make myself small and run around in my work. ![]() Then, in 1995, he says, “I created the comic strip Imaginary Magnitude for a Japanese magazine, and that was where my work began to express the very real delight I find in being a parent. Muth concentrated his published work in the area of comic books, work that gained him a worldwide audience as well as an Eisner Award. But most of his intensive education, he recalls, came from informal apprenticeships with two fine artists.įor a while, Jon J. He went on to study stone sculpture and sho (brush calligraphy) in Japan as well as painting, printmaking, and drawing in England, Austria, and Germany. Muth had his first one-man exhibit of paintings and drawings at the invitation of Wilmington College when he was just eighteen years old. With the births of my son, Nikolai, and my daughter, Adelaine, there was a kind of seismic shift in where my work seemed appropriate.”Īs a child growing up in Cincinnati, the artist says that he “drew and drew and drew and drew, and painted.” His mother, an art teacher, took him to visit museums all over the United States. But when the children came, it became important to say other things about the world. “I was working in comics, which was a natural forum for expressions of angst and questioning one’s place in the universe. “My work in children’s books really grew out of a desire to explore what I was feeling as a new father,” says Jon J. ![]()
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