Illustration: June 2008 Archives

Emily Gravett feature by Joanna Carey

In the attic studio she shows me her work, including the visual journal that not only secured her university place, but also provides her daughter with a vivid account of her early life. Loosely drawn, but full of observational - and symbolic - detail, the images chronicle every aspect of their years on the road. Very personal and moving, reflecting moments of hope, happiness and despair, they make it clear that drawing is Gravett's first form of communication, an entirely natural, unselfconscious activity...

Lauren Child feature from last Sunday's Observer:

On 25 June [Lauren Child launched] a major campaign for Unesco, 'My Life Is a Story,' to help educate deprived children all over the world (profits from a new edition of her picture book That Pesky Rat will contribute). The idea is to encourage children to turn their lives into stories: 'It is about having a voice,' she says...

Portrait by Karen Robinson (different photo on webpage cf print edition)

Guardian Feature on Greenaway winner:

Andy Warhol made works using his own urine; Piero Manzoni famously canned his faeces for the sake of art; Chris Ofili has used elephant dung in his paintings. And now Emily Gravett, who [has] won the UK's most prestigious children's illustration award, has revealed that her winning book was produced with the aid of rats' urine.

3 way illustrator interview...

Jacob Hope interviews Chris Riddell, Nick Ward and Chris Mould

Graphic Macbeth

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Graphic Novel Version of Macbeth reviewed by Amanda Craig, The Times:

Each frame is action-packed, with dizzying perspectives, dramatic shadows hatching characters' faces and a restrained palette of red, purple and yellow emphasising the menace and gloom of moral corruption. Figures clutch their throats, Macbeth soliloquises in thought bubble, and the cadaverous, red-eyed witches are simply terrifying...

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