Drawing from the "Doodlebook"
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Drawing from the "Doodlebook"
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Drawing from the "Doodlebook"
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Drawing from the "Doodlebook"
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Drawing from the "Doodlebook"
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Drawing from the "Doodlebook"
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Drawing from the "Doodlebook"
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BIOGRAPHY

Arnold Hayden Hendrickson began doodling in his spiral-bound notebook during his advanced English Literature classes at the University of Pennsylvania in 1957. Eventually, the doodles began to overwhelm the notes, taking on a life of their own. They soon filled page after page of unlined three-ring "biology lab paper" in his other notebooks as well. The tools were simple: a twenty-nine cent blue Lindy ball-point pen, newspapers or Sears catalogs from which he occasionally traced images, and an imagination shaped by a fascination with dinosaurs and Old English texts. Hendrickson's first drawings were of an imaginary land of dogs called "Ginghamland" to which he retreated whenever the all-female world of his childhood threatened to overwhelm him; he was raised in a house that included both his grandmothers, two great aunts, two female cousins, and a sister. While his sister could escape into the "world of boyfriends," Hendrickson hid alone in his bedroom to read and draw. He served in the Air Force in the Korean war, learning Chinese in a military language school. He then studied literature at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Delaware, and San Francisco State University, where he completed a graduate degree. Most of his adult life was spent as a typist in the Physics department of Temple University. After retiring he lived in San Francisco and wrote a novel called The Restroom. He passed away several years ago.

BOOKS

The End is Near! Roger Manley. Illustrated. Bio.