You Can Never Find a Rickshaw When It Monsoons: The World on One Cartoon a…

by Mo Willems

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An older Mo Willems looks back on the cartoons he drew while traveling around the world for a year. Naturally, they’re pretty funny. (

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maureene87 | Apr 4, 2013 |

In 1990-91, Mo Willems traveled around the world by himself. Each day he drew a cartoon of the thing that had impress3ed him most. (

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On June 1, 1990, less than a week after graduating college, Mo Willems embarked on a yearlong trip around the world. Travelingwith only a notebook, pen and ink, and one change of clothes, he spent the next twelve months backpacking across more than thirty countries.At the end of each day, he drew the one event that stuck out in his mind the mostfrom the sublime to the ridiculous.Recently annotated by the illustrator and featuring a foreword from best-selling humor writer Dave Barry, You Can Never Find a Rickshaw When It Monsoons: The World on One Cartoon a Day is a unique snapshot of an artists coming-of-age as he tries to understand the world around him.

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A collection of single panel comics that the author/illustrator used to record his daily impressions of places he visited while on a year-long journey around the world following his college graduation. Annotated by the author.