![]() ![]() In The Phantom Tollbooth, the hero, Milo, learns that the Kingdom of Wisdom has gone to wrack and ruin due to a long-standing feud between King Azaz of Dictionopolis and his brother, the Mathemagician, over whether letters are more important than numbers, or vice versa. This further inspired Juster to come up with characters and situations that Feiffer would find impossible to depict visually, such as the Triple Demons of Compromise-”one tall and thin, one short and fat, and the third exactly like the other two.”ĭon’t be afraid of the big themes, but don’t lean too hard on them, either. Feiffer got interested in the novel-in-progress and began to supply Juster with illustrations. Juster was living in Brooklyn Heights when he wrote The Phantom Tollbooth in 1960, and his downstairs neighbor was the cartoonist, Jules Feiffer, soon to become a household name. ![]()
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