In an upcoming issue of great local publisher Fantagraphics' flagship magazine The Comics Journal, Maurice Sendak admits to wanting to kill George W. Bush.

"Bush was president, I thought, 'Be brave. Tie a bomb to your shirt. Insist on going to the White House,'" Sendak told Groth. "And I wanna have a big hug with the vice president, definitely. And his wife, and the president, and his wife, and anybody else that can fit into the love hug.

"And then we’ll blow ourselves up, and I’d be a hero," Sendak said. "To hell with the kiddie books. He killed Bush. He killed the vice president. Oh my God. ... It would have been a very brave and wonderful thing. But I didn’t do it; I didn’t do it."

Fantagraphics associate publisher Eric Reynolds told MSNBC that the backlash has already begun. What is it with the dead George W. Bushes floating around pop culture this month? First, Game of Thrones producers admitted to sticking his head on a pike...

...and now this. It's been at least six years since fictional George W. Bush assassinations were a thing.