Kurt Vonnegut is predominately known as a writer of short stories and science fiction. Less well known is his artistic side. His medium of choice is drawings. His first published works were within his novel Breakfast of Champions (Vonnegut.com). His artwork is whimsical and straightforward much like his own writing. Breakfast of Champions is a gimicky book in the sense that the drawings plan an important role within the book; the narrator refers to them constantly.
Later in his career, Vonnegut turned his artistic focus towards painting, and in 1983 held a one man show in New York displaying his works. The focus on painting is a result of the apparent difficulty that writing presents, in his words he states "writing is labor, and the writer's reward arrives when he or she hands the manuscript to the editor and says, 'It's yours.' The painter gets his rocks off while actually doing the painting. The act itself is agreeable' (Interview with Peter Reed).
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