In this Q&A, Enchanted Lion interviews Blexbolex, the award-winning French graphic artist and author-illustrator of The Magicians. He describes how he turns a tide of images and sensations into a book, how finding a narrative thread is like untangling a ball of yarn, what he learned about storytelling from video games, and more.
Read MoreTouching on loss and childhood, poetry and color, and Maurice Sendak and animal companions, author Dafna Ben-Zvi and illustrator Ofra Amit speak with Enchanted Lion’s Emilie Robert Wong about how Snoozie, Sunny, and So-So came to be. In part two of the interview, they discuss their connection to Maurice Sendak, the liberating and transformative power of the imagination, and why difficult topics belong in children’s literature.
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