The Giselle Clarkson Comic: Number 7
Our illustrator Giselle Clarkson has been thinking very hard about the classic Little Golden Book, Kathryn Jackson and Gustaf Tenggren’s The Tawny Scrawny Lion.
Comics
The Giselle Clarkson Comic: Number 6
Illustrator Giselle Clarkson shows us how books can be read differently each time … and why sometimes this is advised.
The Giselle Clarkson Comic: Number 5
One of the lessons of childhood is that not everything has a happy ending. Or a tidy ending. Or an ending that can be understood … Here’s Giselle Clarkson celebrating the inexplicable pull of ambiguity, and those books that invite…
The five stages of illustrating a picture book
Author and illustrator Paul Beavis shares the behind-the-scenes work (and doubt, angst and inspiration) that goes into making his picture books, like the just-released What Are You Supposed to Be?.
The Giselle Clarkson Comic: Number 4
Our illustrator Giselle Clarkson continues her attempts to cling to childhood innocence. This time, she delves into the deep, dark depths of another Judith Kerr classic, The Tiger Who Came to Tea.
The Giselle Clarkson Comic: Number 3
This month, our illustrator takes on generational politics and the housing crisis, and comes up with a viable scapegoat …
Words/pictures: a review of graphic novel, Moa
Mitch Marks reviews Moa, a collection of comics by James Davidson (published by Earth’s End), and makes a case for the importance of graphic novels in general. It’s well documented, and kind of a no-brainer, that combining words and pictures…
The Giselle Clarkson Comic: Number 2
In which our illustrator attempts to preserve her childhood innocence by living in denial for a decade.
The Giselle Clarkson Comic: Number 1
In the first of our monthly comics by Giselle Clarkson, we learn the great, early influence Raymond Briggs had on our illustrator.