Ross MacDonald (1957–)
Author of Another Perfect Day
Ross MacDonald is Ross Macdonald (2). For other authors named Ross Macdonald, see the disambiguation page.
About the Author
Image credit: Ross Macdonald -illustrator
Works by Ross MacDonald
Associated Works
Catch and Release: Trout Fishing and the Meaning of Life (2003) — Illustrator, some editions — 58 copies
Design Culture: An Anthology of Writing from the AIGA Journal of Graphic Design (1997) — Contributor — 45 copies
Design Disasters: Great Designers, Fabulous Failure, and Lessons Learned (2008) — Contributor — 26 copies
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- Canonical name
- MacDonald, Ross
- Birthdate
- 1957-06-23
- Gender
- male
- Occupations
- illustrator
- Short biography
- [from illustrator's website]
For many years Ross MacDonald has been a contributor to periodicals like Vanity Fair, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Newsweek, Time, and Rolling Stone, creating illustrations and writing humor pieces. He also authored and illustrated 4 children's books, as well as the adult humor books In and Out with Dick and Jane (with co-author James Victore) and What Would Jesus Craft?.
Yet all the while he has led a secret double life designing and fabricating props for over 40 movies and television series. He has made everything from the book Bradley Cooper's character throws out the window in Silver Linings Playbook, to the titular Book of Secrets for the second National Treasure movie; Jennifer Lawrence's mop patents for Joy; baby's favorite book in Baby's Day Out; Nucky Thompson's passport and Arnold Rothstein's calling card for Boardwalk Empire; the morgue toe-tags in The Knick; the Pawnee town charter for Parks and Recreation; the Red Apple Tobacco tin in Tarantino's Hateful Eight; Versace's book in the latest season of American Crime Story and thousands of other props. - Birthplace
- Canada
- Places of residence
- New York, New York, USA
Connecticut, USA - Associated Place (for map)
- USA
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Jack wakes up to another perfect day in this humorous confection of a picture-book, displaying many superhero qualities - battling aliens intent on conquest, saving a derailed train - on his way in to his job as an ice-cream taste tester. But on his way home, everything starts to go wrong, as our hero suddenly finds himself dressed like a baby, and driving a tricycle. What could have happened? A helpful little boy suggests he is dreaming, and advises him to wake up. But can he...?
Although show more first published in 2002, Another Perfect Day has a distinct vintage feel to it, hearkening back, in its stylized illustrations, to Golden Age comic-book artwork. The story is humorous and quite surreal, feeling a little random at first, until you realize that it is all part of a dream. The final scenes, in which the real Jack is revealed, explain a lot about what made up his "perfect" day, and what was considered a catastrophe. I enjoyed this one, and would recommend it to anyone looking for picture-books about dreams and/or superheroes, or that have a somewhat surreal sensibility. show less
Although show more first published in 2002, Another Perfect Day has a distinct vintage feel to it, hearkening back, in its stylized illustrations, to Golden Age comic-book artwork. The story is humorous and quite surreal, feeling a little random at first, until you realize that it is all part of a dream. The final scenes, in which the real Jack is revealed, explain a lot about what made up his "perfect" day, and what was considered a catastrophe. I enjoyed this one, and would recommend it to anyone looking for picture-books about dreams and/or superheroes, or that have a somewhat surreal sensibility. show less
Henry is a Frankenstein monster who keeps taking his hand for granted; so hand runs away to the city where he saves a life and becomes wealthy and gets waited on all the time. But hand gets lonely so when he receives a letter from Frankenstein almost a year after he leaves he is happy to return home and settle into their old friendship.
This is a cute interesting story as long as you don't try to read into it too much. I feel like once you start thinking about it, it takes a weird turn.
This is a cute interesting story as long as you don't try to read into it too much. I feel like once you start thinking about it, it takes a weird turn.
MacDonald uses 19th century woodcut letters and his own vintage-y drawings to bring this alphabetical onomatopoeia extravaganza to life.
I loved the style, my kids thought the illustrations were hilarious, and the photographed tutorial of the vanishing art of letterpress printing at the end was very informative.
I loved the style, my kids thought the illustrations were hilarious, and the photographed tutorial of the vanishing art of letterpress printing at the end was very informative.
Henry is a Frankenstein monster who keeps taking his hand for granted; so hand runs away to the city where he saves a life and becomes wealthy and gets waited on all the time. But hand gets lonely so when he receives a letter from Frankenstein almost a year after he leaves he is happy to return home and settle into their old friendship.
This is a cute interesting story as long as you don't try to read into it too much. I feel like once you start thinking about it, it takes a weird turn.
This is a cute interesting story as long as you don't try to read into it too much. I feel like once you start thinking about it, it takes a weird turn.
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- Works
- 7
- Also by
- 8
- Members
- 259
- Popularity
- #88,670
- Rating
- 4.0
- Reviews
- 20
- ISBNs
- 868
- Languages
- 23
