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popped up on
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Robert Sabuda,
the man of a
thousand paper
cuts, has created
pop-up magic
for millions.
ROBERT SABUDA, the artist responsible for
the re-creation of “The Table” on The
Connection’s cover this month, is a pop-up star.
Sabuda has created more than a dozen
pop-up titles, including of The Night Before
Christmas, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Winter’s
Tale, America the Beautiful, Mommy?, The
Chronicles of Narnia and Star Wars. He’s sold
more than 5 million books (many at Costco),
made the New York Times bestseller list eight
times and has had his books translated into
25 languages.
A gifted artist from a young age, who was
inspired at the age of 7 after his mom set up a
pop-up book to help keep him dist racted at
the dentist, the Michigan-born Sabu da eventually entered the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn
as a scholarship student and after gr aduation
became a children’s-book creator.
The 43-year-old creates his masterpieces
in a spacious loft in Manhattan, where he’s
surrounded by colorful art supplies and
antique toys.
It was there that he constructed The
Connection’s cover creation, in between his
two latest projects, Peter Pan (available at
Costco now) and Beauty and the Beast (
available October 2009).
“Fortunately, it really only takes a kernel
o f an idea to set the wheels in motion,” Sabuda
tells The Connection. “The challenge is to make
sure that whatever you visualize captures that
moment of discovery and fun.”
IRIDIO PHOTOGRAPHY
The other challenge is figuring out how
to engineer those astonishingly intricate cut-paper creations.
“Half of paper engineering is being a
magician,” says Sabuda. “You hopefully will
have some innovative engineering moments.”
And when it’s all built? Says Sabuda, “The
really tough part is getting the illustrations to
pop down again and again.”—T. Foster Jones
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