For posterity (and for everyone who missed it on Facebook), I want to record the two updates here to that story.
I notified subscribers that I had added a picture of Max’s Origami Yoda finger puppet, as well as the recording of my pitch to The Moth, to the Dressy Jessie post. Then, unbeknownst to me, my friend David Lasky, artist and graphic novelist, sent my Dressy Jessie story to his friend, TOM ANGLEBURGER, author of the Origami Yoda series. Tom emailed me a note, appreciating Max’s Jedi wisdom and attached two drawings!!! Here are the drawings:
Dwight, the character who brings the Origami Yoda finger puppet to school, with the finger puppet.
The Origami Yoda finger puppet.
In my reply, I asked him a question about the end of the series that I was certain everyone asks. Turns out that no one has asked that question, and he wrote a generously long response. It’s great when a famous person turns out to be a mensch.
But wait, there’s more. A couple of weeks after getting the emails from Tom (we’re on a first name basis now) I received this surprise from Jay Lender, creator of the original Dressy Jessie!!! Here is the cover and two of the outfits: The Laugher and Cyber Babe.
Benefits to losing Dressy Jessie there are.
Sephrah Towbin
Will Jay and Tom collaborate on a book together? 😍
Jay Lender
Jay is open to artistic collaboration, cross-promotion, light housework…
Sephrah Towbin
And David !!!