This week's issue of The Bookseller magazine had a focus on the Southwest, with a shoutout for our Reeve & McIntyre author double-act! Big thanks to journalist Caroline Carpenter for including us! (Subscribers can read the article online here.)


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Biscuits, a Roly-Poly Flying Pony, rascal guinea pigs Neville & Beyoncé and more... Philip Reeve and I talk with Joe Haddow in a 23-minute podcast for Scoop Magazine - listen here!


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Big thanks to writer Sarah Broadley for interviewing me about Pictures Mean Business for the Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators:


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Recently journalist Fiona Noble from The Bookseller trade magazine came to visit me at the studio to interview me for a feature. Fiona's been a terrific champion of the #PicturesMeanBusiness campaign, which is important, because she's one of the people publishers are trying to impress (so she'll feature their books) and when she asks that they ( Read more... )

New Irish Laureate na nOg PJ Lynch is going to be recording a series of interviews with different illustrators, and I was lucky enough to be his first person! Here's a chat we had at Listowel Writers' Week about drawing, influences, a peek at a stage event with Philip Reeve and a tutorial, how to draw one of the pugs from Pugs of the Frozen North. ( Read more... )

People often ask me about my drawing, how I draw, what kind of sketchbooks I keep. I get a lot of illustration students sending me questionnaires and I don't usually have time to answer them. But I thought I'd do this one as a blog post, since I often post drawing here but much less often talk about what goes into making the pictures. So read on, ( Read more... )

If you missed it earlier today, here's BBC Radio Devon host Judi Spier talking with Philip Reeve about Goblins, grotesques and our book Oliver & the Seawigs! (Thanks for all the nice mentions, Philip!) They even played a bit of Bowie at the end.

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Hey look, I have an interview in Ireland's Inis (pronounced 'IN-ish') magazine with Cethan Leahy, including a piece of brand-new picture book artwork no one's seen before! Click here to read...


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Just had to post the latest interview with Emma Brink-Morrison, winner of the recent Vintage Classics Secret Garden cover art competition. I had a big silly grin on my face when I read it.


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