My Copy—and Others—of The Super Hero's Journey by Patrick McDonnell

At the Princeton Children's Book Festival on October 7, Mutts comic strip artist Patrick McDonnell signed copies of his new Marvel Comics memoir The Super Hero's Journey (New York: Abrams Comic Arts, 2023). 

https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/super-heros-journey_9781419769108/

Before adding a drawing to the book, he asked me for my favorite Marvel character. I replied truthfully, "The Sub-Mariner." What else could it be?

 

Three weeks later I attended an event at the Princeton Public Library where McDonnell was joined in conversation by Gil Roth, the podcaster behind the Virtual Memories Show. The subject, of course, was The Super Hero's Journey.

https://princetonlibrary.libnet.info/event/9228913

McDonnell announced that some four-hundred "Make Mine Marvel Arts" buttons with his own superhero art had been manufactured as a book promotion. Some were given away at the library event with the purchase of a book.

Here is a copy of The Superhero's Journey with a credible drawing of the Incredible Hulk.

 

And here's another copy with a drawing of the mischievous Loki from the Thor comic book:

Note:  Gil Roth's earlier conversation with Patrick McDonnell on the subject of The Super Hero's Journey may be heard on the Virtual Memories Show episode #556 here.

Patrick McDonnell is very generous to his fans at signings and he clearly has a ball drawing all the characters in the Marvel Universe in his distinctive style. I will be happy to add many more personalized book drawings to this blog page if readers would care to send me photos or scans of their own treasured copies. There must already be hundreds out there.

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