The
well known French illustrator Benjamin Lacombe just presented his
latest, quite spectacular versions of the ghoulish stories of Poe. I
was most attracted by his self portrait, featuring himself with 6 arms,
and with his very funny looking wrinkly dog Virgile by his side.
He
explained that's how he sees himself, always doing many things at the
same time, making illustrations, writing, designing and drawing
posters, making films ... and sculptures of his book characters, for
exhibitions in New York, Paris, Rome & Tokyo and, now, versions for
iPad. Like the one of 'The Herbarium of Fairies'.
It's
a beautiful story of a botanist, collaborator of Rasputin, co-written
with Sebastian Pereztat and will arrive in Spain end of this year. As
invited star guest recently to the World Book convention in Barcelona,
he came with novelty under his arm: The Mocking Bird, about a shy and
timid boy in an institution in the 50's.
But
I am not here to talk about his books. I found his portrait enchanting
that says a lot about him, and a couple of his drawings that almost by
themselves tell part of the story, or invite your imagination to get
busy writing your own.
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