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ED EMBERLEY by Ed Emberley, Todd Oldham, and Caleb Neelon

This is a lovely monograph of Ed Emberley’s 100+ book career. Starts with a great introductory essay by Neelon, who explains in one paragraph what makes Emberley so great:

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Includes stuff from Ed’s famous drawing books

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But also lesser-known work, like his terrific woodcut-based books:

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And some fun process stuff:

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My only quibble is that there wasn’t a chronological list of all of his books in the back. (There’s a visual list of all the books, but they seemed to me to be out of order.)

See also: Steven Heller on the book.

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