Chat with the artist – Javier Zabala
“Javier Zabala’s work is characterized by the combination of different elements and the expressionism he applies to children’s books. None of his works leave us indifferent; his avant-garde and pictorial…
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Chat with the Artist – Varya Yakovleva
"Three things are important to me; 1. To feel and accept myself, I mean both in general and in specific meaning: the motor skills of my hand and the peculiarities…
Chat with the Artist – Manuel Marsol
"If we try to tell a story from the very beginning by calculating everything, we always end up with fewer surprises and above all less poetry and less truth." Manuel…
Shhhbooks asks: “Can Children’s Books Liberate?”
Hello everyone from the morning of May 16th! This week we kick off a new series of posts for you. In this new Shhhbooks series, we ask questions about illustrated…
Untitled, iron cut / shadow / photo, visual for "Other Animals We Want for Love" (Metis, 2020) by Defne Sandalcı
Chat with the Artist – Ceren Oykut
"When I started drawing, I discovered to relate the movement of the pen with the flow of my thoughts. Then the papers started running out and I continued drawing, spilling…
Chat with the Artist – Jesús Cisneros
“Now sketchbooks are the basis of all my projects and have become a project in itself. For me they are like a small private room, a space where I can…
Chat with the Artist – Akın Düzakın
“While I am making narrative pictures, I give great importance to what is visual, to meet the style of the story. In other words, in the dialog of the visual…
Chat with the Artist – Nazlı Eda Noyan
Nazlı Eda Noyan: ‘‘The work does not end with just text or illustrations. Children's books are a holistic design object'' When she was young, she mostly loved to stare at…
