Crockett Johnson

Harold takes a trip to the moon and comes home again simply by drawing his way through the letters of the alphabet with a purple crayon.

The beloved comic strip is finally given the Fantagraphics treatment. Barnaby's deft balance of fantasy, political commentary, sophisticated wit, and elegantly spare images expanded our sense of what comic strips can do. Barnaby revolved around a precocious five-year-old named Barnaby Baxter and his fairly godfather Jackeen J. O'Malley. Yet O'Malley, a cigar-chomping, bumbling con-artist and fast-talker, was not your typical protector. His grasp of...

Harold draws himself a castle in an enchanted garden and fills it with a king, a giant, a fairy - and himself!

Stepping into the picture he has drawn with his purple crayon, Harold continues drawing his way through various adventures.

Even when his family teases him, a little boy persists in his belief that a plant will grow from the seed he planted.