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3Henrik Drescher is a Danish born artist who was well known for his surreal editorial artwork in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Newsweek, Time and Rolling Stone. He has also written and illustrated several books that were targeted towards children.
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5Born in 1955, Henrik Drescher and his family had emigrated to the United States in 1967, where he attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. However, he ended up quitting the school after only one semester in order to become an illustrator. Henrik Drescher has also travelled around the world including North America and Europe and he kept journals of various notes and drawings that would inspire some of his work later on.
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7His website can be found [[http://www.hdrescher.com/ here]].
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11!!'''Books written and illustrated by Henrik Drescher'''
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13* ''Literature/TheStrangeAppearanceofHowardCranebill'' (1982) – First Children’s book
14* ''Literature/SimonsBook'' (1983) – Featured on ''Series/ReadingRainbow''
15* ''Literature/LookingForSantaClaus'' (1984)
16* ''Look-Alikes'' (1985)
17* ''Literature/TheYellowUmbrella'' (1987)
18* ''Whose Furry Nose?: Australian Animals You'd Like to Meet'' (1987)
19* ''Whose Scaly Tail?: African Animals You'd Like to Meet'' (1987)
20* ''Literature/PatTheBeastie'' (1993)
21* ''Literature/TheBoyWhoAteAround'' (1994)
22* ''Literature/TalesFromTheCrib'' (1994)
23* ''Literature/{{Klutz}}'' (1996)
24* ''Turbulence: A Log Book'' (2001)
25* ''Postal Séance: A Scientific Investigation into the Possibility of a Postlife Postal Existence'' (2004)
26* ''Hubert the Pudge: A Vegetarian Tale'' (2006)
27* ''[=McFig and McFly=]: A Tale of Jealousy, Revenge and Death'' (2008)
28* ''Literature/LoveTheBeastie'' (2011) – sequel to ''Literature/PatTheBeastie''
29* ''Tommeltitter'' (2020)
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31!!'''Books solely illustrated by Henrik Drescher'''
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33* ''The Little Black Book of Atomic War'' (1984) written by Marc Ian Barasch
34* ''Poems of A. Nonny Mouse'' (1989) written by Jack Prelutsky
35* ''Brer Rabbit and the Wonderful Tar Baby'' (1990) written by Eric Metaxas
36* ''WesternAnimation/TheFoolAndTheFlyingShip'' (1991) written by Eric Metaxas
37* ''No Plain Pets!'' (1991) written by Marc Ian Barasch
38* ''Runaway Opposites'' (1995) written by Richard Wilbur
39* ''Colors'' (2000)
40* ''An Interview with Harry the Tarantula'' (2003)
41* ''The Gruesome Guide to World Monsters'' (2005) written by Judy Sierra
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44!!Tropes associated with Henrik Drescher and his works:
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46* AnimalMotifs: Many of Henrik Drescher's works contain characters who are half bird and half human hybrids.
47* ArtShift: Shows up in books like ''Literature/{{Klutz}}'' and ''Literature/RunawayOpposites'' where the images would contain both hand drawn characters along with characters that are cut out of newspaper clippings.
48* AuthorAppeal: Most of Henrik Drescher’s works have characters that are half-bird, half-human hybrids. Also, most of the characters have noodle like appearances and pointy teeth.
49* BlackComedy: Shows up in ''Literature/PatTheBeastie'' (the whole book encourages children to pick the Beastie’s nose and to jiggle his eyes while tormenting the titular Beastie) and ''Literature/TalesFromTheCrib'' shows a darker side of parenting while illustrating them in a humorous way.
50* ChristmasEpisode: ''Literature/LookingForSantaClaus'' is one of the few Henrik Drescher books that deals with Christmas.
51* CloudCuckooLand: Many of Henrik Drescher's books tend to take place in bizarre settings or have the characters do outrageous activities such as ''Literature/{{Klutz}}'' and ''Literature/PatTheBeastie''.
52* DarkerAndEdgier:
53** ''Turbulence: A Log Book'' is probably Henrik Drescher's darkest work due to it dealing with sexual innuendos and having very disturbing imagery.
54** ''Literature/TalesFromTheCrib'' which shows some explicit nudity and the darker side of parenting is also this to a lesser degree, especially since Henrik Drescher has occasionally written children’s books.
55* FantasticComedy: Happens very often in his work as Henrik Drescher would have characters get involved in hilarious and surreal situations including ''Literature/{{Klutz}}'' and ''Literature/LoveTheBeastie''.
56* GrotesqueGallery: All of Henrik Drescher's works contain bizarre looking characters.
57* LighterAndSofter:
58** Compared to most of Henrik Drescher's works, his work on ''Looking for Santa Claus'' is considered to be the most heartwarming and less chaotic of all of his stories.
59** ''Literature/LoveTheBeastie'' is much lighter in tone than its predecessor ''Literature/PatTheBeastie'' as it involves Paul and Judy getting along with their pet Beastie rather than torture it.
60* SurrealHumor: Sometimes combines with SurrealHorror.
61* ToiletHumor: Featured in both ''The Boy Who Ate Around'' and ''Love the Beastie'' which both involved fart jokes.
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