Delayed Echoes

On the origin of Where the Wild Things Are:

The original title was Where the Wild Horses Are. I loved the title, and she loved the title. It was very evocative. The only problem was, I drew horses so very badly that it couldn’t be published that way. It took a period of time to determine what the Wild Things were—what they looked like, what they sounded like. It seemed to take quite a time, and I began to lose hope, thinking that this was just a nice title. But finally it became Where the Wild Things Are, and that was a brilliant discovery because “things” could be any thing, and there was certainly some thing I could draw well.

Fascinating. I can’t wait until the movie is out - how nice of them to release it the weekend after my birthday. =D (via Subtraction)