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Nishant Jain's avatar

I have that one too! I used it when I did an art residency on Vancouver trains. It's super fun to sit behind that giant book cover and leave people wondering what's going on. I love that it looks exactly like the small sketchbooks. 😂

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Avi Steinberg's avatar

Ahh, the mysterious giant sketchbook, I like it. And yes, I can’t tell if the sketchbook is big or I am tiny!

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Nishant Jain's avatar

Find yourself a giant pen and minds will explode!

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Avi Steinberg's avatar

It’ll be a good insight into what it must actually feel like to be one of my kindergarten students!

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Nishant Jain's avatar

😅

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Erik Lokensgard's avatar

How about: 🐘, periodic table of the elements, sequoia, Babe the Blue ox, a really large paper clip, a life size iguana, illustrated biography on one page, dream visioning, a large cup of coffee.

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Avi Steinberg's avatar

Hahah, these are great.

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⚡Thalia The Comedy Muse⚡'s avatar

Clearly you must draw a normal sized moleskin.

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Avi Steinberg's avatar

Genius

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Bridgette Meinhold's avatar

I think the age of social media has put too much pressure on us to make our sketchbooks beautiful and perfect. I say just treat it like any other sketchbook. But maybe draw bigger.

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Avi Steinberg's avatar

Yes, I agree. The more I think about it the less I’ll create

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Bridgette Meinhold's avatar

That being said, I fully understand the desire for sketchbooks to have a theme as if they were a whole and complete story in and of themselves. But not very easy in practice.

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Roxanne's avatar

Well I for one, can't wait to see where your imagination takes you in that car door of a sketchbook :) (and yes, I am at work ;) lol)

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Avi Steinberg's avatar

We’ll see what happens, but I took the plastic off the notebook so I’m one step closer to using it

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Kathlyn's avatar

If you are really put off by the size, you could always use a ruler to divide the pages into little blocks to draw in. Then you get many more mini-pages in there!

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Avi Steinberg's avatar

True! Each page is a full regular sized Moleskine

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Pat Coakley's avatar

Suggestion for moleskin maximus: illustrate all your sins and then get a book deal cuz I for sure would buy it. If you are not a big sinner ask Substack folks to share their sins. They, in turn would then want to buy your illustrated sinners book, too. You could have a contest for Best Title and drum up pre-orders. Did I miss my calling?

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Avi Steinberg's avatar

Also, Moleskine Maximus!!

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Avi Steinberg's avatar

The Illustrated Sinners Book sounds amazing and would definitely be about how everything is my fault.

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Pat Coakley's avatar

Also, I still remember my confession as a 7 year old in my Catholic school weekly meet and purge with Father Blah Blah. I said the same thing every week: bless me father I have sinned. I teased my brother. I disobeyed my mother and father. I ate a lot of chocolate cake and threw up. ( Ever my week I ate too much of something) Illustrating the priest’s face listening to all these sins might be a route to go as well. I’m surprised his rolling eyeballs didn’t roll beneath the curtain beneath my bent knees. I think your ability to enter a kid’s world could also illustrate a kid’s Illustrated book of sins. Sort of like your “Saying Goodbye” post earlier summing up what you had learned from your year of teaching kindergartners. “How to run uphill backwards.”

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Avi Steinberg's avatar

Still unpacking this... and yes, I'm now toying with the idea of a kids book about a kid with a giant notebook.

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Lisi-Tana's avatar

Hahaha….I love this…all great uses of a giant sketchbook. Camping, hang gliding and relaxing are my faves.

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Avi Steinberg's avatar

Thank you!

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Alex Hallatt's avatar

How about a corner of the Empire State building at 1:1 scale?

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Avi Steinberg's avatar

Haha, I need to seriously consider this one

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Christopher Manson's avatar

I love these cartoons! Where can I see more of your work?

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Avi Steinberg's avatar

Thank you so much! I’m here, on instagram (sigh) and every so often in The New Yorker!

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Jezz Lundkvist's avatar

Can't even imagine how expensive that sketchbook is 🤯

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PATRICIA FEEHAN's avatar

I found a black one outside a pub in 2017.

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Mark Starlin's avatar

Loved it. All good ideas! Great cartoons.

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Terry Freedman's avatar

Hilarious! Thanks for the laugh.

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Avi Steinberg's avatar

For sure!!

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Barbara's avatar

Avi, you are great!

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Avi Steinberg's avatar

Aww I try

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Gary Spangler's avatar

You covered a lot of possibilities. I’d be ensnared by indecision.

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Avi Steinberg's avatar

YUP!

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