eNursery Rhymes Submitted for an Ignatz Cartooning Award
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“eNursery Rhymes” Submitted for an Ignatz Cartooning Award
A book of “eNursery Rhymes” illustrated by the late cartoonist Jane T. Hooker has been submitted for an Ignatz Award, which recognizes outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning.
Montgomery, AL — “eNursery Rhymes” illustrated by Jane T. Hooker (1914-2005), a prolific artist and cartoonist, formerly of Montgomery, AL, has been submitted for an Ignatz Award in the “self-published” category by her son, the author of the rhymes. The Ignatz is an annual award intended to recognize outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning.
This submission seeks posthumous recognition of Ms. Hooker’s work, none of which was published during her lifetime. In addition to “eNursery Rhymes,” she was the creator of “Wise Willie,” the logo of the USAF Extension Course Institute, the correspondence school of the Air Force’s Air University, which is stationed in Montgomery. She likewise drew and wrote the comic strip “Bog Bureau”, and a number of books such as “The Guess Who Zoo” (an illustrated children’s book of riddles), “The Jade Spoon” (a novel of two young girls), “The Blue Prince” (the story of Rama) and “The English Rulers” (an illustrated collection of short biographies of the crowned heads of the U.K.). She was in her eighties when she illustrated eNursery Rhymes™.
eNursery Rhymes ™ has already achieved a fifth place sales ranking in the category “Children’s Poetry” on www.lulu.com. The rhymes, accompanied by Ms. Hooker’s black and white cartoons, teach the necessary little lessons of life in the computer age with an infectious rhythm that makes them hard to forget. The annotations at the back of the book make it easy for technically challenged adults to pick up computer jargon and history along with the (grand)children to whom they read the rhymes.
The critics’ reaction to eNursery Rhymes™ has been positive. It has been recommended by “ComputerEdge” Magazine and awarded four pens by “SelfPublisher News”. “Hard to put down,” says “SelfPublisher News”.
“The rhymes are 99.9% excellent, and imaginative. [The] cartoons are funny and entertaining,” said one reader. “[The] final section is so very informative on I.T. practice and precedent, the book could be marketed as an I.T. Primer for Complete Idiots or Geriatric Ignoramuses (Ignorami?),” says another.
The Ignatz Awards are named for the character in the classic comic strip “Krazy Kat” drawn by George Herriman (1880-1944). He was “the counterpart of Chaplin in the comic film,” said Gilbert Seldes, in his famous 1924 essay, “Seven Lively Arts.” After the success of “Krazy Kat,” Herriman rarely illustrated anything else, but there was a prominent exception: Don Marquis’s stories and poems about Archie and Mehitabel, a book of which Ms. Hooker prized as a part of her library. Her cartoons recall the period of Herriman’s popularity, when black and white—not color—was the medium of comic strips.
Submissions for the Ignatz Awards are made to a panel of five cartoonists who develop a ballot, which is then voted on by the attendees of the Small Publishers Exposition (SPX). This year, the SPX will be held on October 13 and 14 at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and Conference Center, in Maryland.
ISBN: 1-4116-7870-2
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Imagination is Greater than Knowledge. — Albert Einstein
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