And each night before bed dad would take the framed drawing off the wall and walk it into my room and say goodnight with it in his hands…like a prank! I had nightmares about it for years. Hair being braided… it was eerie in a way that gave me nightmares. A field of women’s heads growing out of the ground like cabbage. “When I was 7, dad would torture me with this Roland Topor. “The illustrations in this book are an intimate window into the playful, whimsical, almost childlike side of the artists, writers, scientists, and politicians who shaped the world and culture we live in.”Ĭlaudia, Todd, and Caren shared some of their thoughts and recollections about their favorite drawings from the book. When you’re bored in school, you draw in the margins of your binder.
Quotes from the book scrawl movie#
In the book’s foreword, son Todd Strauss-Schulson, a movie director, writes, “There’s something about a doodle that’s unconscious, automatic. Schulson passed away, but his collection lives on in the new book Scrawl: A-Z of Famous Doodles (Rizzoli), released by his family-wife Claudia Strauss-Schulson, and children Caren Strauss-Schulson and Todd Strauss-Schulson. As his business grew, he set aside the most precious items for his own collection, including hundreds of illustrated letters by some of the most important cultural and political figures of the 20th century. David Schulson was a collector by nature, and back in the late 1970s he parlayed it into his very own autograph business on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
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