Tonko House Co-Founder Robert Kondo on Turning Walks With His Daughter Into Book of Bedtime Poems, ‘Curiosities’
Terry Flores When the pandemic forced creatives at Berkeley-based animation shop Tonko House to work from home, studio co-founder Robert Kondo used the pause to take walks with his young daughter, who is now five, exploring the simple wonders of nature. Those special walks inspired Kondo to create a unique graphic novel-style collection of bedtime poems and art called “Curiosities,” soon to be published by First Second Books.“One of the aspects during the pandemic that I really came to enjoy were these little walks that we would go on, these walks through nature and that sort of thing.