This is based on a poster I had in my room as a kid in the ’70s that I would stare at before going to sleep every night—the Cookie Monster cooking cookies, nibbling the letter A—Muppet poetry! It is a rare image; I had to screenshot it from a Jim Henson documentary from that era. Along with the rest of the world, I love Cookie Monster, as he is voracious in his appetite not only for cookies, but for life, and is a monster who knows what he wants, but does so with good energy and zaniness. His famous song “C is for Cookie” is a cosmic earworm:

Now what starts with the letter C?

Cookie starts with C

Let’s think of other things

That starts with C

Oh, who cares about the other things?

C is for cookie, that’s good enough for me!

Oh, cookie, cookie, cookie starts with C, yeah!

I wanted to try to capture the intensity of his focused mayhem making the drawing as animated as possible, a triptych to mimic each of his “cookie cookie” exalta-tions before he gobbles down the cookies with his “Yum Umm-umm-umm-umm-umm”!