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Illustration

May 2024

  • ‘About 80% of the time, they would catch me’ … a detail from one of Cockburn’s illustrations in Tale of Ahmed.

    ‘I know the adrenaline of escaping’: Henry Cockburn on turning his time on the run into a refugee rap epic

    His Costa-shortlisted first book examined his own schizophrenia, from hospital breakouts to hiding from the police. Now the writer has fed this into Tale of Ahmed, a story in rap verse about a boy fleeing Afghanistan for Britain
  • One of John Gould’s commissions: a hand-colored lithograph by Henry Constantine Richter of a Lady Amherst’s pheasant.

    ‘Exceptional’: rare books of illustrations from Darwin’s ‘bird man’ on sale for £2m

    The set of folios published by John Gould will be presented at Firsts book fair in London in mid-May
  • A publisher in a crash helmet at a desk under water and another being fired out of a cannon

    Tom Gauld's cultural cartoons
    Tom Gauld watches a high-risk publisher at work – cartoon

    Crash helmet at the ready …

April 2024

  • Cover illustration by Maureen Roffey for the children’s book The Grand Old Duke of York, 1975

    Other lives
    Maureen Roffey obituary

  • TGbooks126illusion

    Tom Gauld's cultural cartoons
    Tom Gauld on the two authors illusion – cartoon

  • a key held held aloft to a drawer

    Tom Gauld's cultural cartoons
    Tom Gauld on Bluebeard – cartoon

  • Early morning mist hanging over the South Downs near Ditchling Beacon.<br>EYY6CR Early morning mist hanging over the South Downs near Ditchling Beacon.

    Walking in the air: Snowman creator Raymond Briggs’s favourite Sussex paths

  • Tom Gauld's cultural cartoons
    Tom Gauld unveils some exciting new literary genres – cartoon

  • Elmer and the climate crisis: lost story by David McKee set to be published

  • Tom Gauld's cultural cartoons
    Tom Gauld on the novelist’s latest draft – cartoon

March 2024

  • TGbooks123easter Tom Gauld

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    Tom Gauld on the Easter Bunny’s other life as a poet – cartoon

  • Forging ahead … Putrella, 1958, Mari’s fruit bowl made from a steel beam.

    Enzo Mari review – the anarchic Italian at war with design world ‘pornography’

  • LAURENT OF BRUNHOFF, AUTHOR OF BABAR THE ELEPHANT (Photo by Jeremy Bembaron/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images)

    Laurent de Brunhoff obituary

  • The Finnish edition of The Snowman with author’s notes

    ‘Not a parable about death’: Raymond Briggs’s notes set record straight for The Snowman

  • Tom Gauld's cultural cartoons
    Tom Gauld and the people of the ancient kingdoms wait as Alaryk meets his nemesis – cartoon

  • Tom Gauld's cultural cartoons
    Tom Gauld on a conspiracy theorist’s book club discussion about The Gruffalo – cartoon

  • Other lives
    Joe Blossom obituary

  • Observer New Review Q&A
    Pop art pioneer Peter Blake: ‘I wasn’t really a swinger. I never did any drugs’

  • Tom Gauld's cultural cartoons
    Tom Gauld on making the characters in a novel more likable – cartoon

  • Unseen illustrations show the genius of Biba’s Barbara Hulanicki – in pictures

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