Sadly I didn’t find it there thanks to either the British Library’s clunky website or my significantly more clunky research skills. The murky forest is rendered in thick-as-syrup black ink as we delve into each image, navigating the meagre white space and dappled half-light – just as the eternally plucky siblings must.Īnyway, I had hoped to find a copy to drool over free of charge in the British Library, where I’m researching for my current project, black and white illustrations for an educational book of Icelandic Sagas. Mattotti’s treatment of the Grimm classic is black and white book illustration of the highest order. One look you’ll see why, it’s a real treat. In 2003 Mattotti won an Eisner Award for his Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde graphic novel.I’ve recently been oohing and ahhing at Lorenzo Mattotti’s illustrations for Hansel and Gretel, as written by Neil Gaiman (Toon Books, 2014 ). His illustrations have been published in magazines including Cosmopolitan, Vogue, The New Yorker, Le Monde and Vanity Fair. Lorenzo Mattotti is an illustrator and comics/graphic novel artist.
In 2013 he published his first adult novel for seven years, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, which received stellar reviews and was a bestseller around the world. He has also written two amazing episodes of Doctor Who and appeared in The Simpsons as himself. Neverwhere has been adapted for TV and radio and American Gods is in development as a major HBO series. Many of his books, including Coraline and Stardust, have been made into films. Times has described his multi-million-selling graphic novel series Sandman as 'the greatest epic in the history of comic books'. Neil Gaiman has written highly acclaimed books for both children and adults and is the first author to have won both the Carnegie and Newbery Medals for the same work - The Graveyard Book.
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