5/8/2023 0 Comments Weetzie bat![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A name later attached itself to this character when Block saw a pink Ford Pinto on the freeway with a driver who looked like that hitchhiker the license plate of the car was "WEETZIE." Block began making up stories about Weetzie and drew her innumerable times long before casting the character in her first novel. It was in Hollywood that Block first saw the prototype of Weetzie: a hitchhiker with "spiky bleached hair, a very pink '50s prom dress and cowboy boots," as she later described her. "It was an incredibly rich upbringing."Īs a teen in the late 1970s, Block and her friends often went to Hollywood after school, where they hung out at Schwab's soda fountain, drove up and down Sunset Strip, or went to the Farmer's Market, another popular teen hangout. "My father used to tell me bits of the Odyssey for my nighttime story," she recalled. Rabbit and the Lovely Present, Randall Jarrell's Animal Family, and Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, Block was also greatly influenced by Greek mythology and legend. It feels like I was always able to read." In addition to traditional childhood favorites such as Charlotte Zolotow's Mr. As Block recalled, "There were trips to the library for books and there were books all around our home. Born in Hollywood, California, Block was raised by parents who were both artists: her father was a painter and teacher and one-time special-effects technician and screenwriter for Hollywood and her mother is a writer. ![]()
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