Kids' book on friendship a natural for Kansas City illustrator and buddy Taye Diggs
Dan Kelly, The Kansas City Star
Jan. 11—Award-winning Kansas City illustrator Shane Evans says he has been "friends forever" with actor Taye Diggs. So it is appropriate that their most recent collaboration — their fourth children's book — is called "My Friend!"
When Evans and Diggs appeared on NBC's "Today" show Jan. 5 to promote "My Friend!," which went on sale that day, Diggs said, "It was all Shane's brain baby."
Evans told The Star that the kernel of the book's idea came from when the two friends, who had met in high school in Rochester, New York, attended Syracuse University in the early 1990s. They worked together on a project about what being Black meant to them.