Saturday 11 May 2019







Kurosaka Keita’s illustrations for a Japanese edition of Vitezslav Nezval’s Valerie and her Week of Wonders.

These are still my current favourite illustrations after Kamil Lhotak’s. 

Sure they lack the surreal abstract nature of the recent German illustrations and the Victorian homages of Lhotak's originals, but there's something about these illustrations that just fit the narrative.

Also love the idea of having all characters except for Valerie looking extremely grotesque. Kind of plays up the unreal, nightmarish side to the narrative.