Michael Sowa

Family, meet my favorite still-living artist. (Okay, I really hope he's still living.)





Cathy and I chanced upon a few postcards of his work in Cape Cod the fall I left Connecticut. It was too detailed and too evocative (I thought) to really qualify as cartooning, although Sowa is capable of that. He illustrates a lot of children's books, one of which is called Esterhazy. The original is in German, Alexandra. Another, La vie des animaux, is in French. The Little King December seems to be in English. I'll need a few dictionaries, but I think I'll buy them all.