Will you walk into my (Spooky) parlor?

October 20, 2008

In front of a Spideriffic bulletin board in Michigan, 2002.

Sweet creatures! My FAVORITE holiday, Halloween, is fast arriving and I look forward to decorating the house for all of the trick-or-treaters. So, I thought I’d blow the dust off of some old goodies I had made when The Spider & Fly made its debut back in 2002 and color them up with my little gal, Sophia.

These color-n-make wall hangers are lots of fun to do, and will add some nice insect spookiness to any parlor in your home. Here’s the darling Ms. Fly, and J.W. Cricket, that you can print out immediately and get to coloring:

You can download the rest of the arthropod cast on my main site under BOOKS.

Send me pics of your finished ones, and I’ll post them here on the blog for a special “Friday Fan Art”…heck, I may even drop some Spider & Fly goodness in the mailbox to ya…

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Tony DiTerlizzi: Never abandon imagination.

Imagination is a world of possibility that exists within each of us. It is what makes us uniquely human. It is our creative fingerprint that touches and influences the world around us. Imagination is essential to art and science; to innovation and prosperity. It gives us hope, calls us to action and leads to change.

Whether it’s fairies, dragons, robots or aliens, all of my children’s book characters are siblings born of my imagination – an imagination strengthened through years of encouragement from family, teachers and friends. While so many others abandoned it during their transition from childhood to adulthood, I fiercely held onto mine, hoping for a day when I could share it to inspire the next generation of dreamers. Innovators. World changers.

Imagination empowers us to envision and create a reality of what could be. We must hold it dear, foster it and never abandon it.

Will you walk into my (Spooky) parlor?

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Tony DiTerlizzi: Never abandon imagination.