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...Phil, however, thought my mom was completely wrong. "I've been married coming up on 28 years now, and Robin and I never fight. I absolutely hate conflict and confrontation," he said. "The problem is, when you don't argue, you miss makeup sex. And that's absolutely the best sex in the whole world." Then I got kind of grossed out thinking about my mom. "Also, right before Valentine's Day or Christmas, a good fight can save you several hundred dollars," Dr. Phil continued. Good advice. You don't get to put "Dr." in front of your name...
...however, much of a career arc for a big businessman. Yet this month Kirk, 47, and his fictional creations, the zippy Miss Spider and her bug confederates, began an unprecedented assault on the nation's nurseries, closets and gardens. Kirk's works will become Target's first children's designer brand. And as with the store's popular home products designed by Michael Graves and Todd Oldham, Target will be heavily promoting the signature style of the creator of the merchandise. The aim is for Kirk to become the progenitor of a "children's lifestyle brand." Think Martha Stewart...
...Miss Spider, in case you're unfamiliar with her charms, is a strictly flower-eating arachnid. When we first met her in 1994, in Miss Spider's Tea Party, she was having trouble making friends with other bugs because they feared being consumed. But her kindness--and vegetarianism--won the day, and in subsequent books she has married, bought a new car and gone to school...
More than 4 million Miss Spider books are in print, making the series as big a seller as Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes. How did she snare so many buyers? The stories are gentle and told in rhyme ("'If I had friends like these,' she sighed,/ 'Who'd stay a while with me,/I'd sit them down on silken chairs/And serve them cakes and tea'"), but the illustrations are what seals the deal. Kirk, who majored in art at the Cleveland Institute of Art, paints Miss Spider's rotund little body and curlicue hair in bold, almost hallucinatory...
Kirk followed the Miss Spider series in 1999 with Nova's Ark, a considerably darker tale of a planet populated only by robots. Instead of painting pictures, he worked with a computer-graphics company to create the images. He also has board books about baby animals for even smaller children, from infants to preschoolers. So far, he's the author of 12 titles overall. Pretty good going considering that he became an author by default...