His taste is for unique, offbeat ideas with a sense of good humor and produced with an eye for color and beautiful graphics as represented by The Original Old Radio Game (possibly the world's first trivia book) from 1965 to Maxon: Art Out of Chaos,[1] FU (Fantagraphics Underground) Press, 2018.
The artist of Beasties Coloring Book (1970), Vernon Koski, was posthumously selected to have his ashes incorporated into a painting, which is in the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Additionally, he wrote and produced two catalogs for touring exhibitions: "Draw Me A Story", "A Century of Children’s Book Illustration" and "Walk In Beauty, Discovering American Indian Art".
[9] In 2008, the museum presented Whyte with a "Sparky" award, named after Charles M. Schulz, who was also given a caricature of himself by artist Zach Trenholm.
[8] In 1994 Whyte founded Word Play Publications to publish limited, signed illustrated books, among them Goreyography, the bibliography of the works of Edward Gorey, photo-documentary of underground cartoonists The Underground Comix Family Album,[10] and Maxon’s Poe illustrated by Maxon Crumb.