It's Book Time!

Fuel your mind poster by Shaun Tan

The Bologna Children's Book Fair started today, and tomorrow Seba and I 

are going for our annual pilgrimage, like every Spring for the past 14 years. 

The experience is always interesting, often exciting, generally exhausting. This time 

I am particularly looking forward to it, since we have some new important projects 

to promote and discuss. Say a little prayer for us and enjoy this reading rainbow!

Sneak peak illustration from It's a book by Lane Smith

Illustration from the lovely Roland by André Francois, 1958,

thanks to Le figure dei libri

Galassia Gutenberg poster by Gianluigi Toccafondo

Illustration by Chiho Makino

Illustration by Yolanda Mosquera

Illustration by Henri Galeron for Gallimard Jeunesse

Jungle library, thanks to the ever fascinating Franco Matticchio

Cover of Why you should read Kafka before you waste your life by James Hawes.

Lettering and illustration by Steve Snider, thanks to Rough Front

Vintage reading poster, thanks to delicious industries and doe-c-doe

Bookmark by Lesley Barnes, thanks to the always wonderful Aqua-Velvet

Gianluigi Toccafondo - The Tail

Gianluigi Toccafondo is a very talented painter, illustrator and animator who lives in Milan since 1987. He was born in the tiny country of San Marino (like Nicoletta Ceccoli) in 1965, and received his artistic training from his ceramist father and later at ISIA graphic school in Urbino. He has collaborated with many important Italian publishers and magazines, and is famous for the animated videos he creates for advertising and tv show title sequences. Toccafondo has also produced seven animated short films as personal projects. For his 1989 debut La coda (the tail), he used about 1200 stills from Buster Keaton movies, which he photographed, xeroxed, painted and then filmed with a 35mm camera.