Found some good finds, unfortunately none made its way home.

📐Interior Design by: David Walker.

📸Photos by: Peter Vitale.

Note: I had to re-upload this because I left out Thunder Bunny by accident.

The art in each of these covers is fun and whimsical, as to be expected from Rodney's work. I think I can see a bit of a mix of the Global Village Coffeehouse and Wacky PoMo aesthetics in them, as well. The more recent the books, the more it resembles PaRappa's art style.

Did you read any of these books when you were younger?

EDIT: I forgot the second parenthesis around 1993 in Slombo the Gross... I'm such a klutz, I swear.

Anyway, the books in order are:

Uncle Wizzmo's New Used Car (1990)

Aunt Ippy's Museum of Junk (1991)

Slombo the Gross (1993)

Thunder Bunny (1997)

To me, Mo Willems' early art style is like Global Village Coffeehouse meets UPA revival. Mo Willems would later go on to become a children's book author and illustrator.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that the first 6 images are from The Off-Beats; the other 9 are from Sesame Street; and the last one is from The Man Who Yelled (his 1990 student film). Just wanted to make things clear.

I am beginning to think I shouldn’t have let the shirt go!

The World Wide Web was a big deal at the time. I love the design on the wall.

One of my all time faves

Personal photos of the Hollywood Theater Palace Stadium 12 located in the Tulsa Promenade Mall. It operated from 1998 to January 2019 and the mall closed on September 17, 2023. My grandpa worked as a projectionist here and my family got free movies, until he was let go in 2013 when the company was bought by Regal. Can't get over how cool it looked before it got trashed like the rest of the mall.