Posy simmonds biography samples
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by Alistair Dabbs
A few sore heads were evident on Thursday, the first official day of Angoulême 2024. British artist Posy Simmonds had been awarded the festival’s top accolade, Grand Prix, the previous night as part of the opening ceremony, a stand-up event held in what can only be described as a large barn containing the longest bar in town.
Posy being unable to attend in person, she was represented by her French publisher and translator Jean-Luc Fromental, who read aloud the artist’s brief acceptance speech while swinging the Grand Prix ‘fauve’ around like a weapon. He could be found in the crowd shortly afterwards, showing off the trophy to all and sundry, and singing ‘We Are The Champions’ with British collaborator and comics historian Paul Gravett.
The opening ceremony continued with speeches by local politicians and even a junior minister for sport (Paris will host the summer Olympics this year) before increasingly thirsty atten
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Book Illustration: 25 Beautiful Examples
We all remember the signature illustrations of our childhood reads: the wild scribbles of Quentin Blake, the gentle watercolors of Beatrix Potter, the simple line drawings of Shel Silverstein, and so on. Indeed, many book illustrations become indelibly linked to the stories they depict. And they’re not just limited to picture books! Many works of literature (both classic and contemporary) benefit from great illustrations as well.
To help you get a sense of your preferred style for your own children's book — or if you just want to look through a gallery of gorgeous images — we’ve put together 25 examples of book illustration over the past few years. These drawings come from children’s books, graphic novels, memoirs, and more, with incredible diversity in both the subjects and the illustrators themselves. So dive on in — you're sure to find something you love!
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“I Call It Education bygd Stealth!” An Interview with Mary Talbot
Since the release of Dotter Of Her Father’s Eyes in 2012, Mary Talbot has become a key writer of biographical and nonfiction comics. That work, her debut, won the Costa Book Award for biography, and has since been followed by Sally Heathcote: Suffragette, a fictionalized account of the British suffragette movement, and a biography of the French revolutionary Louise Michel titled The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia.
Talbot’s background in academia has set the tone for her deeply researched works. Given that her professional interests lie in gender studies, it is no accident that her work has unapologetically put kvinna protagonists front and center.
She regularly collaborates with well-established comics artist and husband Bryan Talbot on her projects. The two have created a tone of röst for the works that combines the emergency of cartoonish representations of people and settings with a symbo