The exhibition catalog has just been published by Yale University Press. The exhibition David Wiesner & The Art of Wordless Storytelling is currently at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art through May and then opens at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in June. Jack Kirby was one of the people that Wiesner thanked when he accepted his second Caldecott. Over the course of his career, Wiesner has cited and paid tribute to comics and many of the artists who influenced him. Wiesner even created an app called Spot which was an interactive exploration of worlds within worlds. Earlier in his career he illustrated books by Avi, Jane Yolen, Laurence Yep, Allan W. He has also received three Caldecott Honors among his mnay other awards. Wiesner has been awarded the Caldecott Medal three times – one of only two artists to ever do so – for his books Tuesday, The Three Pigs, and Flotsam. He comes to comics as one of the most acclaimed storytellers of his generation. Fish Girl, which has just been released by Clarion Books, but writer/artist David Wiesner is not just any debut graphic novelist.
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