
Mervyn Peake
Recently I’ve been reading Malcom Yorke’s fascinating biography of author/illustrator Mervyn Peake (1911-1968), one of my illustration ‘heroes’. In 1947 Peake was interviewed on BBC Radio and waxed lyrical on the subject of book illustration. His ideas are so close to my own opinions on the subject I can’t resist quoting the great man’s words here: For a book illustrator “above all things there must be the power to slide into another man’s soul. The power to be identified wit