Everything I draw ends up wearing a bow-tie

ren-ne-rei:

The red-legged scissorman from “Struwwelpeter”, a famous german children’s book that is, while of undisputed literary value, just completely fucking terrifying. I think it was my granny who read it to me when I was like five years old, and earlier today the memory crept back… so, a drawing happened.

If you’re interested and if you don’t know it already anyways, you can read the poem about the scissorman here (in english) —> Little Suck-a-Thumb

I don’t have the book anymore, which is a shame : ( I assume my parents hid it in the darkest corner of the basement or gave it away ages ago, along with “Max und Moritz” and “Allerhand Kurzweil” and the original “Grimm’s Märchen” and all the other cute books for kids. 

Oh my gosh I remember reading this when I was small. It was in a big book of compiled nursery rhymes and poems, my parents were just like ‘yeah sure have at it.’

European kids get the best stories.

(via anadventureawaits)