The best illustrated books

Flyswatter, by Dashiell Hammett and Hans Hillmann

26/02/2021

There is something very special about graphic novels. And this one in particular, developed from Dashiell Hammett's own story, contributes that magical compendium of some illustrations by Hans Hillmann at the service of the suggestive plot. The idea is to decorate, complement, even tell the story through snapshots that ...

The Girl Who Read on the Subway, by Christine Féret-Fleury and Nuria Díaz

04/02/2020

Illustrating a book has something of a magical interpretation. What the illustrator finally represents accesses that intimate space in which the whisper of the writer and the inner voice of the reader coexist, a four-dimensional conversation from the single plane of page x. And the good illustrator ...