"Though I've always illustrated my own books, I was not meant to be an illustrator. I find it unpleasantly difficult to make a character look like the same guy on different pages. Quentin Blake can do that and still draw beautifully. I was happy when he agreed to illustrate me, and I'm flipping with the results."
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Blake attended Downing College in Cambridge and the London University Institute of Education as well as the Chelsea School of Art. He was a visiting tutor at the Royal College of Art in London where he also served as head of the illustration department for 10 years. Blake has illustrated the works of several prominent authors including Joan Aiken, Tana Hoban, and Margaret Mahy. He also had a long-term collaboration with Roald Dahl, which produced, among other works, THE B.F.G. and THE WITCHES. I more...
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1932 England, Great Britain, United Kingdom, British Isles, Western Europe,
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Dahl's children's books, you'd be justified in thinking, come from a different mind altogether. But wow. What a glorious trip!