The Comics Bureau

Head over to Paul Gravett’s site to read a review of Flem­ish car­toon­ist Willy Linthout’s ‘Years of the Elephant’.

And then in a mas­ter­stroke, he solves the ques­tion of how to rep­res­ent and per­son­ify his own dead son by using the chalk out­line of his fallen body. And in turn, this leads to his decision, based on his Flem­ish pub­lisher Ria Schulpen’s sug­ges­tion, not to com­plete his sketched, uninked draw­ings but to leave them in their unre­fined, pen­cilled state, urgent, vul­ner­able, as if to emphas­ise the human hand and heart behind them.

Willy will be appear­ing as part of the Com­ica events this year in con­ver­sa­tion with former children’s laur­eate Michael Rosen on the 23rd Novem­ber at the ICA. Details here.