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| Poskitt: refined and stylish. (Photo: Sarah McIntyre) |
After a while, the Barbarians got their own spin-off series, in the form of three books about rough, tough Urgum the Axeman, his seven brutish sons, and his single, sensible little daughter. And I got to illustrate those, too!
And now Poskitt has returned to the Lost Desert with a new character, Borgon the Axeboy. We're doing a series of books about him for Faber & Faber, and the first one, The Dangerous Breakfast, has just been published (we're working on the second at the moment). It's the story of what happens when junior barbarian hero Borgon sets off, accompanied by his friend Grizelda, to find the most dangerous breakfast the Lost Desert can provide.
Here's the cover (drawn by me, coloured by Faber's Emma Eldridge, which is why it's a bit brighter and cheerier than my usual stuff).
It's great being back in the crazy world of Poskitt, and I'm looking forward to exploring the rest of the Lost Desert with him. There are a lot of places on the map which we haven't visited yet. In the meantime, you should be able to get the first Borgon book from your local bookshop, or online.
3 comments:
Refined and stylish? Poo gosh - your standards are slipping matey!
Oh my word. I have you to thank for any skills I may have at maths; I read The Essential Arithmetricks when I was around seven and I never looked back - I'm now doing a maths degree! Thank you so much.
That's great! Always good to hear from a satisfied customer. Though really it's Poskitt you have to thank; my maths is so poor that I barely understood any of the things I was drawing in those books; KP did little roughs of what he wanted and I just copied them out neatly!
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