How a boy became an artist
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0:01 - 0:03Hello. My name is Jarrett Krosoczka,
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0:03 - 0:08and I write and illustrate books for children for a living.
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0:08 - 0:12So I use my imagination as my full-time job.
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0:12 - 0:15But well before my imagination was my vocation,
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0:15 - 0:18my imagination saved my life.
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0:18 - 0:20When I was a kid, I loved to draw,
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0:20 - 0:23and the most talented artist I knew
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0:23 - 0:25was my mother,
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0:25 - 0:28but my mother was addicted to heroin.
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0:28 - 0:32And when your parent is a drug addict,
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0:32 - 0:35it's kind of like Charlie Brown trying to kick the football,
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0:35 - 0:38because as much as you want to love on that person,
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0:38 - 0:40as much as you want to receive love from that person,
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0:40 - 0:43every time you open your heart, you end up on your back.
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0:43 - 0:47So throughout my childhood, my mother was incarcerated
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0:47 - 0:49and I didn't have my father because
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0:49 - 0:53I didn't even learn his first name until I was in the sixth grade.
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0:53 - 0:55But I had my grandparents,
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0:55 - 0:57my maternal grandparents Joseph and Shirley,
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0:57 - 1:01who adopted me just before my third birthday
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1:01 - 1:02and took me in as their own,
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1:02 - 1:04after they had already raised five children.
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1:04 - 1:07So two people who grew up in the Great Depression,
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1:07 - 1:12there in the very, very early '80s took on a new kid.
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1:12 - 1:14I was the Cousin Oliver of the sitcom
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1:14 - 1:17of the Krosoczka family,
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1:17 - 1:19the new kid who came out of nowhere.
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1:19 - 1:23And I would like to say that life was totally easy with them.
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1:23 - 1:26They each smoked two packs a day, each, nonfiltered,
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1:26 - 1:29and by the time I was six,
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1:29 - 1:31I could order a Southern Comfort Manhattan,
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1:31 - 1:33dry with a twist, rocks on the side,
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1:33 - 1:37the ice on the side so you could fit more liquor in the drink.
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1:37 - 1:40But they loved the hell out of me. They loved me so much.
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1:40 - 1:42And they supported my creative efforts,
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1:42 - 1:45because my grandfather was a self-made man.
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1:45 - 1:47He ran and worked in a factory.
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1:47 - 1:49My grandmother was a homemaker.
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1:49 - 1:52But here was this kid who loved Transformers
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1:52 - 1:56and Snoopy and the Ninja Turtles,
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1:56 - 2:01and the characters that I read about, I fell in love with,
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2:01 - 2:04and they became my friends.
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2:04 - 2:06So my best friends in life were the characters
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2:06 - 2:08I read about in books.
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2:08 - 2:12I went to Gates Lane Elementary School in Worcester, Massachusetts,
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2:12 - 2:14and I had wonderful teachers there,
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2:14 - 2:18most notably in first grade Mrs. Alisch.
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2:18 - 2:21And I just, I can just remember the love that she offered
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2:21 - 2:24us as her students.
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2:24 - 2:27When I was in the third grade,
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2:27 - 2:29a monumental event happened.
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2:29 - 2:31An author visited our school, Jack Gantos.
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2:31 - 2:35A published author of books came to talk to us
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2:35 - 2:37about what he did for a living.
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2:37 - 2:40And afterwards, we all went back to our classrooms
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2:40 - 2:43and we drew our own renditions of his main character,
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2:43 - 2:45Rotten Ralph.
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2:45 - 2:47And suddenly the author appeared in our doorway,
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2:47 - 2:50and I remember him sort of sauntering down the aisles,
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2:50 - 2:54going from kid to kid looking at the desks, not saying a word.
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2:54 - 2:57But he stopped next to my desk,
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2:57 - 3:00and he tapped on my desk, and he said,
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3:00 - 3:02"Nice cat." (Laughter)
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3:02 - 3:05And he wandered away.
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3:05 - 3:10Two words that made a colossal difference in my life.
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3:10 - 3:13When I was in the third grade, I wrote a book for the first time,
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3:13 - 3:17"The Owl Who Thought He Was The Best Flyer." (Laughter)
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3:17 - 3:19We had to write our own Greek myth,
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3:19 - 3:22our own creation story, so I wrote a story about an owl
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3:22 - 3:26who challenged Hermes to a flying race,
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3:26 - 3:28and the owl cheated,
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3:28 - 3:31and Hermes, being a Greek god, grew angry and bitter,
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3:31 - 3:33and turned the owl into a moon,
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3:33 - 3:35so the owl had to live the rest of his life as a moon
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3:35 - 3:38while he watched his family and friends play at night.
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3:38 - 3:42Yeah. (Laughter)
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3:42 - 3:44My book had a title page.
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3:44 - 3:48I was clearly worried about my intellectual property when I was eight.
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3:48 - 3:51(Laughter)
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3:51 - 3:55And it was a story that was told with words and pictures,
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3:55 - 3:57exactly what I do now for a living,
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3:57 - 4:00and I sometimes let the words have the stage on their own,
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4:00 - 4:04and sometimes I allowed the pictures to work on their own
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4:04 - 4:06to tell the story.
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4:06 - 4:09My favorite page is the "About the author" page.
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4:09 - 4:11(Laughter)
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4:11 - 4:14So I learned to write about myself in third person
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4:14 - 4:17at a young age.
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4:17 - 4:21So I love that last sentence: "He liked making this book."
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4:21 - 4:25And I liked making that book because I loved using my imagination,
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4:25 - 4:26and that's what writing is.
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4:26 - 4:28Writing is using your imagination on paper,
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4:28 - 4:31and I do get so scared because I travel to so many schools now
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4:31 - 4:34and that seems like such a foreign concept to kids,
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4:34 - 4:38that writing would be using your imagination on paper,
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4:38 - 4:42if they're allowed to even write now within the school hours.
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4:42 - 4:45So I loved writing so much that I'd come home from school,
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4:45 - 4:47and I would take out pieces of paper,
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4:47 - 4:49and I would staple them together,
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4:49 - 4:52and I would fill those blank pages with words and pictures
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4:52 - 4:56just because I loved using my imagination.
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4:56 - 4:58And so these characters would become my friends.
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4:58 - 5:01There was an egg, a tomato, a head of lettuce and a pumpkin,
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5:01 - 5:03and they all lived in this refrigerator city,
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5:03 - 5:06and in one of their adventures they went to a haunted house
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5:06 - 5:07that was filled with so many dangers
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5:07 - 5:12like an evil blender who tried to chop them up,
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5:12 - 5:18an evil toaster who tried to kidnap the bread couple,
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5:18 - 5:20and an evil microwave who tried to melt their friend
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5:20 - 5:24who was a stick of butter. (Laughter)
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5:24 - 5:26And I'd make my own comics too,
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5:26 - 5:28and this was another way for me to tell stories,
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5:28 - 5:31through words and through pictures.
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5:31 - 5:33Now when I was in sixth grade,
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5:33 - 5:36the public funding all but eliminated the arts budgets
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5:36 - 5:38in the Worcester public school system.
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5:38 - 5:41I went from having art once a week
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5:41 - 5:43to twice a month
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5:43 - 5:46to once a month to not at all.
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5:46 - 5:48And my grandfather, he was a wise man,
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5:48 - 5:50and he saw that as a problem, because he knew
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5:50 - 5:53that was, like, the one thing I had. I didn't play sports.
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5:53 - 5:56I had art.
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5:56 - 5:58So he walked into my room one evening,
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5:58 - 6:00and he sat on the edge of my bed,
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6:00 - 6:02and he said, "Jarrett, it's up to you, but if you'd like to,
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6:02 - 6:05we'd like to send you to the classes at the Worcester Art Museum."
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6:05 - 6:06And I was so thrilled.
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6:06 - 6:08So from sixth through 12th grade,
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6:08 - 6:10once, twice, sometimes three times a week,
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6:10 - 6:12I would take classes at the art museum,
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6:12 - 6:15and I was surrounded by other kids who loved to draw,
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6:15 - 6:18other kids who shared a similar passion.
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6:18 - 6:21Now my publishing career began when I designed the cover
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6:21 - 6:24for my eighth grade yearbook,
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6:24 - 6:27and if you're wondering about the style of dress I put our mascot in,
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6:27 - 6:30I was really into Bell Biv DeVoe and MC Hammer
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6:30 - 6:33and Vanilla Ice at the time. (Laughter)
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6:33 - 6:37And to this day, I still can do karaoke to "Ice, Ice Baby"
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6:37 - 6:40without looking at the screen.
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6:40 - 6:43Don't tempt me, because I will do it.
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6:43 - 6:45So I get shipped off to private school,
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6:45 - 6:47K through eight, public schools, but for some reason
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6:47 - 6:50my grandfather was upset that somebody
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6:50 - 6:52at the local high school had been stabbed and killed,
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6:52 - 6:55so he didn't want me to go there.
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6:55 - 6:58He wanted me to go to a private school, and he gave me an option.
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6:58 - 6:59You can go to Holy Name, which is coed,
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6:59 - 7:02or St. John's, which is all boys.
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7:02 - 7:04Very wise man, because he knew I would,
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7:04 - 7:07I felt like I was making the decision on my own,
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7:07 - 7:09and he knew I wouldn't choose St. John's,
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7:09 - 7:10so I went to Holy Name High School,
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7:10 - 7:13which was a tough transition because, like I said,
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7:13 - 7:15I didn't play sports,
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7:15 - 7:17and it was very focused on sports,
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7:17 - 7:21but I took solace in Mr. Shilale's art room.
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7:21 - 7:24And I just flourished here.
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7:24 - 7:27I just couldn't wait to get to that classroom every day.
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7:27 - 7:29So how did I make friends?
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7:29 - 7:33I drew funny pictures of my teachers -- (Laughter) --
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7:33 - 7:36and I passed them around.
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7:36 - 7:40Well, in English class, in ninth grade,
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7:40 - 7:42my friend John, who was sitting next to me,
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7:42 - 7:45laughed a little bit too hard.
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7:45 - 7:47Mr. Greenwood was not pleased.
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7:47 - 7:51(Laughter)
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7:51 - 7:54He instantly saw that I was the cause of the commotion,
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7:54 - 7:58and for the first time in my life, I was sent to the hall,
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7:58 - 8:00and I thought, "Oh no, I'm doomed.
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8:00 - 8:04My grandfather's just going to kill me."
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8:04 - 8:05And he came out to the hallway and he said,
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8:05 - 8:06"Let me see the paper."
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8:06 - 8:11And I thought, "Oh no. He thinks it's a note."
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8:11 - 8:14And so I took this picture, and I handed it to him.
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8:14 - 8:17And we sat in silence for that brief moment,
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8:17 - 8:20and he said to me,
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8:20 - 8:23"You're really talented." (Laughter)
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8:23 - 8:26"You're really good. You know, the school newspaper
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8:26 - 8:28needs a new cartoonist, and you should be the cartoonist.
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8:28 - 8:32Just stop drawing in my class."
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8:32 - 8:34So my parents never found out about it.
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8:34 - 8:37I didn't get in trouble. I was introduced to Mrs. Casey,
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8:37 - 8:39who ran the school newspaper,
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8:39 - 8:43and I was for three and a half years
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8:43 - 8:46the cartoonist for my school paper,
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8:46 - 8:48handling such heavy issues as,
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8:48 - 8:51seniors are mean,
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8:51 - 8:54freshmen are nerds,
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8:54 - 8:59the prom bill is so expensive. I can't believe how much it costs to go to the prom.
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8:59 - 9:03And I took the headmaster to task
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9:03 - 9:07and then I also wrote an ongoing story about a boy named Wesley
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9:07 - 9:10who was unlucky in love, and I just swore up and down
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9:10 - 9:12that this wasn't about me,
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9:12 - 9:16but all these years later it was totally me.
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9:16 - 9:18But it was so cool because I could write these stories,
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9:18 - 9:19I could come up with these ideas,
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9:19 - 9:22and they'd be published in the school paper,
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9:22 - 9:24and people who I didn't know could read them.
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9:24 - 9:27And I loved that thought, of being able to share my ideas
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9:27 - 9:30through the printed page.
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9:30 - 9:33On my 14th birthday, my grandfather and my grandmother
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9:33 - 9:35gave me the best birthday present ever:
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9:35 - 9:40a drafting table that I have worked on ever since.
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9:40 - 9:41Here I am, 20 years later,
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9:41 - 9:46and I still work on this table every day.
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9:46 - 9:48On the evening of my 14th birthday,
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9:48 - 9:52I was given this table, and we had Chinese food.
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9:52 - 9:56And this was my fortune:
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9:56 - 9:58"You will be successful in your work."
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9:58 - 10:01I taped it to the top left hand of my table,
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10:01 - 10:03and as you can see, it's still there.
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10:03 - 10:07Now I never really asked my grandparents for anything.
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10:07 - 10:09Well, two things: Rusty, who was a great hamster
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10:09 - 10:13and lived a great long life when I was in fourth grade.
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10:13 - 10:16(Laughter)
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10:16 - 10:19And a video camera.
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10:19 - 10:22I just wanted a video camera.
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10:22 - 10:24And after begging and pleading for Christmas,
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10:24 - 10:27I got a second-hand video camera,
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10:27 - 10:30and I instantly started making my own animations
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10:30 - 10:33on my own,
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10:33 - 10:35and all throughout high school I made my own animations.
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10:35 - 10:38I convinced my 10th grade English teacher to allow me
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10:38 - 10:41to do my book report on Stephen King's "Misery"
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10:41 - 10:46as an animated short. (Laughter)
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10:46 - 10:48And I kept making comics.
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10:48 - 10:52I kept making comics, and at the Worcester Art Museum,
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10:52 - 10:57I was given the greatest piece of advice by any educator I was ever given.
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10:57 - 10:59Mark Lynch, he's an amazing teacher
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10:59 - 11:02and he's still a dear friend of mine,
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11:02 - 11:04and I was 14 or 15,
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11:04 - 11:07and I walked into his comic book class halfway through the course,
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11:07 - 11:09and I was so excited, I was beaming.
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11:09 - 11:12I had this book that was how to draw comics in the Marvel way,
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11:12 - 11:15and it taught me how to draw superheroes,
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11:15 - 11:17how to draw a woman, how to draw muscles
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11:17 - 11:19just the way they were supposed to be
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11:19 - 11:22if I were to ever draw for X-Men or Spiderman.
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11:22 - 11:25And all the color just drained from his face,
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11:25 - 11:26and he looked at me, and he said,
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11:26 - 11:29"Forget everything you learned."
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11:29 - 11:33And I didn't understand. He said, "You have a great style.
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11:33 - 11:37Celebrate your own style. Don't draw the way you're being told to draw.
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11:37 - 11:39Draw the way you're drawing and keep at it,
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11:39 - 11:42because you're really good."
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11:42 - 11:45Now when I was a teenager, I was angsty as any teenager was,
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11:45 - 11:49but after 17 years of having a mother
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11:49 - 11:51who was in and out of my life like a yo-yo
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11:51 - 11:55and a father who was faceless, I was angry.
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11:55 - 11:57And when I was 17, I met my father for the first time,
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11:57 - 12:01upon which I learned I had a brother and sister I had never known about.
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12:01 - 12:03And on the day I met my father for the first time,
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12:03 - 12:06I was rejected from the Rhode Island School of Design,
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12:06 - 12:10my one and only choice for college.
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12:10 - 12:12But it was around this time I went to Camp Sunshine
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12:12 - 12:15to volunteer a week and working with the most amazing kids,
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12:15 - 12:18kids with leukemia, and this kid Eric changed my life.
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12:18 - 12:20Eric didn't live to see his sixth birthday,
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12:20 - 12:23and Eric lives with me every day.
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12:23 - 12:27So after this experience, my art teacher, Mr. Shilale,
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12:27 - 12:28he brought in these picture books,
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12:28 - 12:30and I thought, "Picture books for kids!"
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12:30 - 12:35and I started writing books for young readers
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12:35 - 12:36when I was a senior in high school.
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12:36 - 12:39Well, I eventually got to the Rhode Island School of Design.
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12:39 - 12:41I transferred to RISD as a sophomore,
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12:41 - 12:45and it was there that I took every course that I could on writing,
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12:45 - 12:49and it was there that I wrote a story about a giant orange slug
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12:49 - 12:51who wanted to be friends with this kid.
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12:51 - 12:52The kid had no patience for him.
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12:52 - 12:55And I sent this book out to a dozen publishers
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12:55 - 12:58and it was rejected every single time,
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12:58 - 13:01but I was also involved with the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp,
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13:01 - 13:04an amazing camp for kids with all sorts of critical illnesses,
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13:04 - 13:07and it's those kids at the camp that read my stories,
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13:07 - 13:11and I read to them, and I saw that they responded to my work.
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13:11 - 13:14I graduated from RISD. My grandparents were very proud,
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13:14 - 13:17and I moved to Boston, and I set up shop.
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13:17 - 13:19I set up a studio and I tried to get published.
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13:19 - 13:22I would send out my books. I would send out hundreds of postcards
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13:22 - 13:25to editors and art directors,
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13:25 - 13:26but they would go unanswered.
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13:26 - 13:28And my grandfather would call me every week,
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13:28 - 13:32and he would say, "Jarrett, how's it going? Do you have a job yet?"
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13:32 - 13:35Because he had just invested a significant amount of money
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13:35 - 13:37in my college education.
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13:37 - 13:41And I said, "Yes, I have a job. I write and illustrate children's books."
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13:41 - 13:44And he said, "Well, who pays you for that?"
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13:44 - 13:46And I said, "No one, no one, no one just yet.
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13:46 - 13:47But I know it's going to happen."
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13:47 - 13:51Now, I used to work the weekends at the Hole in the Wall off-season programming
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13:51 - 13:54to make some extra money as I was trying to get my feet off the ground,
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13:54 - 13:58and this kid who was just this really hyper kid,
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13:58 - 14:00I started calling him "Monkey Boy,"
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14:00 - 14:04and I went home and wrote a book called "Good Night, Monkey Boy."
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14:04 - 14:07And I sent out one last batch of postcards.
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14:07 - 14:11And I received an email from an editor at Random House
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14:11 - 14:15with a subject line, "Nice work!" Exclamation point.
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14:15 - 14:16"Dear Jarrett, I received your postcard.
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14:16 - 14:19I liked your art, so I went to your website
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14:19 - 14:23and I'm wondering if you ever tried writing any of your own stories,
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14:23 - 14:26because I really like your art and it looks like there are some stories that go with them.
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14:26 - 14:30Please let me know if you're ever in New York City."
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14:30 - 14:33And this was from an editor at Random House Children's Books.
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14:33 - 14:35So the next week I "happened" to be in New York.
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14:35 - 14:38(Laughter)
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14:38 - 14:41And I met with this editor,
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14:41 - 14:44and I left New York for a contract for my first book,
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14:44 - 14:45"Good Night, Monkey Boy,"
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14:45 - 14:48which was published on June 12, 2001.
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14:48 - 14:54And my local paper celebrated the news.
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14:54 - 14:58The local bookstore made a big deal of it.
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14:58 - 15:00They sold out of all of their books.
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15:00 - 15:04My friend described it as a wake, but happy,
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15:04 - 15:07because everyone I ever knew was there in line to see me,
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15:07 - 15:10but I wasn't dead. I was just signing books.
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15:10 - 15:11My grandparents, they were in the middle of it.
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15:11 - 15:14They were so happy. They couldn't have been more proud.
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15:14 - 15:18Mrs. Alisch was there. Mr. Shilale was there. Mrs. Casey was there.
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15:18 - 15:19Mrs. Alisch cut in front of the line and said,
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15:19 - 15:22"I taught him how to read." (Laughter)
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15:22 - 15:25And then something happened that changed my life.
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15:25 - 15:27I got my first piece of significant fan mail,
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15:27 - 15:30where this kid loved Monkey Boy so much
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15:30 - 15:34that he wanted to have a Monkey Boy birthday cake.
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15:34 - 15:38For a two-year-old, that is like a tattoo. (Laughter)
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15:38 - 15:41You know? You only get one birthday per year.
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15:41 - 15:44And for him, it's only his second.
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15:44 - 15:45And I got this picture, and I thought,
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15:45 - 15:47"This picture is going to live within his consciousness
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15:47 - 15:51for his entire life. He will forever have this photo
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15:51 - 15:54in his family photo albums."
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15:54 - 15:57So that photo, since that moment,
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15:57 - 16:00is framed in front of me while I've worked on all of my books.
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16:00 - 16:02I have 10 picture books out.
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16:02 - 16:06"Punk Farm," "Baghead," "Ollie the Purple Elephant."
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16:06 - 16:08I just finished the ninth book
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16:08 - 16:10in the "Lunch Lady" series, which is a graphic novel series
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16:10 - 16:13about a lunch lady who fights crime.
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16:13 - 16:16I'm expecting the release of a chapter book
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16:16 - 16:19called "Platypus Police Squad: The Frog Who Croaked."
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16:19 - 16:23And I travel the country visiting countless schools,
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16:23 - 16:27letting lots of kids know that they draw great cats.
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16:27 - 16:30And I meet Bagheads.
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16:30 - 16:35Lunch ladies treat me really well.
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16:35 - 16:39And I got to see my name in lights
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16:39 - 16:41because kids put my name in lights.
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16:41 - 16:43Twice now, the "Lunch Lady" series has won
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16:43 - 16:46the Children's Choice Book of the Year in the third or fourth grade category,
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16:46 - 16:48and those winners were displayed
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16:48 - 16:52on a jumbotron screen in Times Square.
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16:52 - 16:55"Punk Farm" and "Lunch Lady" are in development to be movies,
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16:55 - 16:58so I am a movie producer
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16:58 - 17:00and I really do think, thanks to that video camera
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17:00 - 17:03I was given in ninth grade.
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17:03 - 17:06I've seen people have "Punk Farm" birthday parties,
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17:06 - 17:08people have dressed up as "Punk Farm" for Halloween,
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17:08 - 17:10a "Punk Farm" baby room,
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17:10 - 17:15which makes me a little nervous for the child's well-being in the long term.
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17:15 - 17:17And I get the most amazing fan mail,
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17:17 - 17:20and I get the most amazing projects,
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17:20 - 17:23and the biggest moment for me came last Halloween.
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17:23 - 17:25The doorbell rang and it was a trick-or-treater
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17:25 - 17:29dressed as my character. It was so cool.
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17:29 - 17:33Now my grandparents are no longer living,
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17:33 - 17:36so to honor them, I started a scholarship at the Worcester Art Museum
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17:36 - 17:39for kids who are in difficult situations
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17:39 - 17:42but whose caretakers can't afford the classes.
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17:42 - 17:44And it displayed the work from my first 10 years of publishing,
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17:44 - 17:47and you know who was there to celebrate? Mrs. Alisch.
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17:47 - 17:49I said, "Mrs. Alisch, how are you?"
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17:49 - 17:52And she responded with, "I'm here." (Laughter)
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17:52 - 17:59That's true. You are alive, and that's pretty good right now.
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17:59 - 18:00So the biggest moment for me, though,
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18:00 - 18:02my most important job now is I am a dad myself,
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18:02 - 18:05and I have two beautiful daughters,
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18:05 - 18:08and my goal is to surround them by inspiration,
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18:08 - 18:11by the books that are in every single room of our house
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18:11 - 18:13to the murals I painted in their rooms
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18:13 - 18:17to the moments for creativity where you find, in quiet times,
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18:17 - 18:20by making faces on the patio
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18:20 - 18:23to letting her sit in the very desk
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18:23 - 18:25that I've sat in for the past 20 years.
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18:25 - 18:28Thank you. (Applause)
- Title:
- How a boy became an artist
- Speaker:
- Jarrett J. Krosoczka
- Description:
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When Jarrett J. Krosoczka was a kid, he didn’t play sports, but he loved art. He paints the funny and touching story of a little boy who pursued a simple passion: to draw and write stories. With the help of a supporting cast of family and teachers, our protagonist grew up to become the successful creator of beloved children’s book characters, and a vocal advocate for arts education.
- Video Language:
- English
- Team:
- closed TED
- Project:
- TEDTalks
- Duration:
- 18:48
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