Storypeople by Brian Andreas

The first time I saw the Storypeople prints, I was so fascinated by them that I showed all of my friends. I expected to get an enthusiastic response, but they just laughed and said “Those look like a three-year-old drew them.” They were right, of course; the prints are drawn like children’s sketches, with captions that read like a line from a storybook. So I began to wonder why they astounded me so much. And then I realized, the infantile nature of the prints was the whole point! Nothing is truer than something that comes from the mouth of a child. The unadulterated innocence of a child does not allow any lies, and so anything on these prints, any insights they shared, must be absolutely, fundamentally, true. The imagination and whimsy simply worked to portray the image of childhood and the optimism that is found there. Andreas knew that making his prints by any other approach could not possibly be so inspiring as words said as though from the mouth of a child.

--Katie Odom

"They came to sit and dangle their feet off the edge of the world and after awhile they forgot everything but the good and true things they would do someday."
--Brian Andreas