"Ballad" is a story, and like all great stories it deepens with each retelling."Ballad" builds over seven sequences. The first has three images: school, path, home. The next builds upon the first, giving us: school, street, path, forest, home. The next five sequences take up this story, but with new[...]
Our private eye protagonist is framed for a heinous crime. On the wrong side of the law he runs for his life amid a conspiracy that will set off a war to ravage the land. Printed in three spot colors, a style that Blexbolex has become so famous for.[...]
"This thick volume is both beautiful and intriguing - artist's portfolio, concept book, and word book rolled into one."--"The Horn Book Magazine"Mother and father, dancers and warriors, gardener and farmer, hypnotist and genie. . . . All sorts of people appear in "People," linked together in ways th[...]
Author of the 2010 "New York Times" Best Illustrated Children's Book "Seasons" (Enchanted Lion Books), Blexbolex's "No Man's Land" satirizes the mind's ability to seduce itself--mercilessly hurtling its hero around an implausible dreamland designed to mask the processes of mortality. Blexbolex's fir[...]
Den franske illustratören Blexbolex har här skapat en underfundig bok för barn - och vuxna. Med säreget uttryck och en stor portion humor har han gestaltat verkliga, mytiska eller påhittade karaktärer. Varje uppslag illustrerar två figurer förknippade med varandra, ofta på ett överraskande[...]