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Blacksmith21 ago

You lost me at the "kids page". Before you freak on me, look at my v/PG submissions. I'm a father. I'm a pedo hunter. I know what is creepy and what is not. I haven't seen anything that was creepy or CPP-related on that site except a ping-pong table. ANd while the PP table is damning in certain context, I'm not seeing it here.

NOMOCHOMO ago

https://archive.is/iLi9G/022019ecea96b173897a10a3ead9dd59cdd5ec58.jpg

Where the wild things are...but with pizza? Those monsters are looking at that kid hungrily

Blacksmith21 ago

I didn't notice this before. The pizza modification to the cover art changes my viewpoint quite a bit. Maybe they went with the subtle look.

Vindicator ago

I thought I'd heard that Maurice Sendack was abused as a kid. I don't think that is true. But...

When I poked around, I found this interesting article which mentions his work touching on "cannibalistic rage" and how viral it has been internationally.

Author Maurice Sendak once said: ‘I only have one subject. The question I am obsessed with is How do children survive?’ (Marcus, 2002, pp.170–171).

According to the writer Francis Spufford, Where the Wild Things Are is ‘one of the very few picture books to make an entirely deliberate, and beautiful, use of the psychoanalytic story of anger’ (Spufford, 2003, p.60). For me, this book and Maurice Sendak’s other works are fascinating studies of intense emotions – disappointment, fury, even cannibalistic rage – and their transformation through creative activity.

And one of his lesser known works is frequently banned:

"It was his later book, In the Night Kitchen, that landed on the American Library Association’s frequently challenged and banned books list. It features a little boy named Mickey, who is nude throughout most of the story."

According to his NYT obit, child trafficking was a huge influence on his work:

Mr. Sendak was reared, he said afterward, in a world of looming terrors: the Depression; World War II; the Holocaust, in which many of his European relatives perished; the seemingly infinite vulnerability of children to danger. He experienced the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby in 1932 as a personal torment: if that fair-haired, blue-eyed princeling could not be kept safe, what certain peril lay in store for him, little Murray Sendak, in his humble apartment in Bensonhurst?

An image from the Lindbergh crime scene — a ladder leaning against the side of a house — would find its way into “Outside Over There,” in which a baby is carried off by goblins.

And his male partner was a child psychiatrist:

Mr. Sendak’s companion of a half-century, Eugene Glynn, a psychiatrist who specialized in the treatment of young people, died in 2007.

think- ago

IIRC, his mother had severe mental issues.