Don't see the connection to the BofG?

Well, I wish you could go back in time to see the stellar 2005 Wild Things exhibit at New York's Jewish Museum, which traced the influence of Maurice Sendak's Jewish immigrant upbringing on his work. From the archived online exhibit gallery:

In Where the Wild Things Are, Sendak renders his Eastern European Jewish relatives, whom he remembers from childhood, as the wild things. Max, the story’s protagonist, journeys to a fantasy land inhabited by the monsters, whom he eventually sends to bed without their supper, as his own mother has done to him.

Tattoo via the always informative needled.