Seuss-light Archive

[ccstat he/him]

The pitch: What if Dr. Seuss wrote the Stormlight Archive?

EDIT: The completed book is in the next post. Original post archived in the spoiler:

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I will be attending Boskone in February (event thread here), and I've been planning to create a physical gift to give to Brandon. Unfortunately, my work schedule will not allow me to complete it in time, so I am hoping to find some artistic sharders who want to help. I recognize that I am not giving a lot of lead time on this, and I'm sorry--I've been debating about whether or not to ask for collaborators. If I don't find anyone or it doesn't get finished on time, I'm prepared to postpone a few years to the next signing I attend, or to ship a delayed product directly to him. It would be more fun to be able to present it to him in person, though, so that is the hope.

The pitch: What if Dr. Seuss wrote the Stormlight Archive? I've expanded my original draft on that idea and added tributes to both The Cat in the Hat and Fox in Sox. There is still room for improvement/additions to the text, but the main thing that is lacking is Seuss-style illustrations to accompany the text. Ideally, the final product would turn out along the lines of the amazing Where's My Chull? that @ExMachina et al made in 2014 for the Words of Radiance tour. (If you haven't seen that Terry Pratchett tribute yet, you should go look at it right now.) Note: I bring up Where's My Chull? mostly to highlight the great work they did on it. The Dr. Seuss-styled illustrations of this project should be less demanding than the line art and coloring that went into theirs.

Due to the nature of the piece, we can have a lot of text on one page with only one or two illustrations, or we can spread out the text across many pages the way many Seuss books are laid out. This means there is a huge amount of freedom available in terms of length--I estimate anywhere from 6 to 20 pages. Therefore we have room for a lot of people if there is a lot of interest, and your own time commitment can be as large or small as you like. If you are interested in contributing, post here or PM me. I look forward to hearing from you!

 

 

Edited February 18, 2017 by ccstat
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[ccstat he/him]

It's finished! Or, as finished as it will get for a while. I printed a physical copy to give to Brandon at Boskone, and he seemed to enjoy it a lot. I wish that I had been able to put more illustrations in it, but there simply wasn't time. I am inordinately fond of my Thaylen eyebrows illustration, though. I feel like it really captures the spirit of the mashup.

I'm also quite pleased with the Unkalaki tongue twisters. If only I had figured out a way to stick "Airsick lowlanders!" in somewhere.

Anyway, here is the book! (Spoilered for size) 

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I hope you like it!

I also had some partial drafts for Stormlight versions of other Seuss books that I didn't make the cut for inclusion. So there may eventually be a sequel or improved draft that includes The Bitter Battle Book (about the war on the shattered plains) and a version of Green Eggs and Ham ("Amaram, Lord Amaram, I do not like the Diagram"). 

[Kaladin180]

That is absolutely awesome

[Jofwu he/him]

"Move yours up; my pen moves too! What else can these spren-gem-pens do?"

"Come meet my friends, Surge One and Surge Two."

I'm dying here. This is incredible work @ccstat. I'll be reading this to my daughter when she's a bit older.

Hope you can find time to do more illustrations! Or that someone else pitches in.

[DeTess she/her]

This is the best thing I've seen on the shard today. Well done!

[Spoolofwhool]

I wish we could get a recording of Brandon reading this.

Amazing work.

Edited February 22, 2017 by Spoolofwhool

[+Extesian he/him]

Brilliant. We should do a charity kickstarter to morally compel Brandon to record this.

[Kingsdaughter613 she/her]

This is just so great!

[Staphylococcus she/her]

Wow, you are awesome! You deserve all the upvotes and more!

[xinoehp512 he/him]

This is hilarious. How did you manage to get all those rhymes?

And that cat in the hat parody- just yes.

You are a genius.

[+Ark1002]

On 2/22/2017 at 1:02 PM, Spoolofwhool said:

I wish we could get a recording of Brandon reading this.

Amazing work.

If someone went to s signing and handed him a copy, do you think he would read it?

[1st of Lunch he/him]

This is...I mean...uh...wow...

Seriously one of the best things I have read in a long time! I want these fleshed out into full books of their own so I can read them to my younger kids!

[Wyndlerunner he/him]

This is beautiful.

[+Ark1002]

I'm still wondering how he did it. And still planning on printing it out and giving it ot Brandon.

[ladymxdnight she/her]

I would totally buy this if it was available in print, it's brilliant!

 

[Ashspren]

I really want to see “Amaram, Lord Amaram, I do not like the Diagram”...

[Kidpen he/him]

On 8/1/2018 at 8:10 PM, Pessimistspren said:

I'm still wondering how he did it. And still planning on printing it out and giving it ot Brandon.

I believe OP already did that.

On topic, that is storming awesome.

[Ink he/him]

This was storming amazing. Probably the funniest cosmere mashup I've seen I want more!

[ccstat he/him]

Thanks for all the kind words! I'm glad that you have been enjoying my Seussified Roshar.

On 8/1/2018 at 11:10 PM, Ark1002 said:

And still planning on printing it out and giving it ot Brandon.

I did in fact give Brandon a printed copy when I saw him last year. I only saw his  to the first page, but I think he appreciated it.

On 8/27/2018 at 11:37 AM, Ashspren said:

I really want to see “Amaram, Lord Amaram, I do not like the Diagram”...

I've thought a bit more about this one, and may have something to show for it before too long.

[+Ark1002]

One word: YES!!!

[Zelly]

Every time I read this is makes me mad I can't give it more votes.  "The Shin Who Came In" is just so perfect.

[Fully_Invested]

Oh, the wonderful things a Radiant can do! Would you like to do them too?

 

:-D Great idea!

[Mailnaise she/her]

So cool!!!!!

 

[PrinceDusty he/him]

That was brilliant. Absolutely storming brilliant. You, sir, are a poetic genius.

edit: oops., meant to use my 100th post on my first theory. this is a satisfactory use as well, 101 is a fun number too. or maybe i'll do 123 or something, it's been hard not using posts. dangit, why do we not have permission to delete our own posts

Edited September 23, 2018 by PrinceDusty

[BitBitio he/him]

45 minutes ago, PrinceDusty said:

That was brilliant. Absolutely storming brilliant. You, sir, are a poetic genius.

This was your 100th post...