"No book ever ends, when it's full of your friends." ~Roald Dahl
MILES tells stories & jokes with PICTURES
He was a very troubled young reader. Newspaper comics SAVED him, as they did many, from illiteracy with inkspots that helped hold his interest! He attended CalArts' School of Film, Character Animation program in 1990 where he single handedly animated some dirty festival films before work in production for 30 years, starting at Hanna Barbara in 1994 as an art director. Miles is lucky to have loved the paper and film days, in the sunset years of a 100 year old genius genre. Pictures ARE worth a thousand words, speaking the unspeakable in us all.
The truth is never easily told, unless it's a lie.
ANCIENT ART OF STORY TELLING
A good story never gets old, they just get better when retold. We learn more about HOW they turn each time we tell them. Sharng a GREAT one is an ART! A GIFT! It requires a revolution of rehearsals. NO JOKE! - silly needs seasoning for good flavor. Pictures help, we can HEAR a good one, they SPEAK all languages, like music. In telling stories (and jokes) for a living with drawings and paintings Miles learned to love them, like people they are REAL THINGS. Books are our friends, and
NOW books are more fundamental to our collective wellbeing than ever before. We NEED STORIES!
THEY ARE MEDICINE!
SEE AND BE CHANGED
As individuals our IDEAS are what we make of them., in the same way in the end up BEING what we BELIEVE ourselves to be capable of becoming. Our thoughts commit us to a STORY until we learn to OPEN our MIND to CHANGE.
NOBODY IS BORN WITH ANSWERS!
Questions with no answers are the beginning. INFO is POWER! METAMORPHOSIS must be UNLOCKED by EXPERIENCE!
HAPPILY EVER AFTER, is not easy! As a reader who struggled and fought to comprehend one word Miles always thought,
"How could I ever be a author when it took me SO LONG
to learn to LOVE BOOKS???"
...until he realized HOW MUCH he loved them.
"If I can do it, SO CAN YOU!" is the most important story a struggling young reader in the world today can hear!
IT IS WAR IN WORDS!
ASKING FOR HELP IS HEALHTY !
Human imaginations answer the HARDEST questions anyone can ask. We ALL need HELP to GROW no matter who we are! Miles wants to grab readers with PICTURES and WORDS to encourage CREATIVE PARTICIPATION to inspire RECREATING the IDEA of one's own SELF WORTH because thats what helped him make sense of it all in time!
PICTURES turned him from being a book HATER into
WORD CHOMPING PICTURE PAINTING BOOKWORM!!!