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unusual facts about illustrated books



Stanley Arthur Franklin

As a free-lance cartoonist he produced work for the New Statesman and for illustrated books: Alf Garnett's Little Blue Book (1973), The Thoughts of Chairman Alf (1973), Alf Garnett Scripts (1973), and Dick Emery's In Character (1973).


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André François

François initially worked for French leftist newspapers (Le Nouvel Observateur) and illustrated books by authors such as Jacques Prévert, but gradually reached a larger audience, publishing in leading magazines of the United Kingdom (Punch) and the United States (The New Yorker).

Angus McKie

He is best known as an English science fiction illustrator whose work appeared on the covers of numerous science fiction paperback novels in the mid-1970s and 1980s, as well as in Stewart Cowley's Terran Trade Authority series of illustrated books.

Eberhard Georg Friedrich von Wächter

At Vienna he illustrated books and made drawings, many of which were etched or engraved by Rahl and Leybold.

George Olshevsky

While compiling the Marvel Indices, he "produced some 60 fully illustrated books, totaling more than a million and a quarter words," producing indices to all the major Marvel Superheroes (including Avengers, The Amazing Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, Marvel Team-Up, etc.

Gustaf Tenggren

By 1923, he was illustrating children's book during the heyday of illustrated books by illustrators such as Arthur Rackham and Kay Nielsen.

Harold Robert Millar

He illustrated books by a wide range of British authors of his time, including Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Rudyard Kipling.

Harry Oakman

An immigrant from Belgium, Oakman wrote numerous illustrated books on gardening and, as a public landscaper, enjoyed enormous influence over the design of open spaces in Brisbane, Canberra, and Newcastle.

Héctor Xavier

He also worked on scenery for plays and illustrated books for Efraín Huerta, Jaime Labastida and Oscar Oliva.

John Dominis

He often pictured stars like Steve McQueen or Frank Sinatra, and these photo series were later published as illustrated books.

Keisuke Serizawa

Serizawa has also produced numerous masterpieces in illustrated books including Don Quixote, Vincent van Gogh and A Day at Mashiko.

Kyo Maclear

She is the author of two novels: The Letter Opener (2007) and Stray Love (2012); and three illustrated books for children, Spork (2010) and Virginia Wolf (2012), illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault; and Mr. Flux (2013), illustrated by Matte Stephens.

Leo Gestel

Due to financial problems Gestel created advertisements (e.g. for Philips) for illustrated books.

Marjory Allen, Lady Allen of Hurtwood

She campaigned for facilities for children growing up in the new high-rise developments in Britain's cities and wrote a series of illustrated books on the subject of playgrounds, and at least one book on adventure playgrounds, spaces for free creativity by children, which helped the idea spread worldwide.

Mathurin Méheut

Between world wars, he illustrated books for authors including Colette, Maurice Genevoix, and Pierre Loti, and created ceramics at Henriot in Quimper, at the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres, and at Villeroy & Boch in Sarre.

Nicholas Callaway

In 1980, he founded Callaway Arts & Entertainment, a publishing firm specializing in the design, production and publication of illustrated books.

Tsutaya

Tsutaya Jūzaburō (1750-1797), woodblock publisher of ukiyo-e and popular illustrated books.

Vasant Sarwate

Apart from cartoons, Sarwate has illustrated books of many notable Marathi writers like P L Deshpande, Vijay Tendulkar and Vinda Karandikar.