EXTRACTS: Illustrators issue 15 © 2016 The Book Palace (96 PAGES in Full edition)

3 Dave McKean Follow Diego Cordoba as he trips the light fantastic with this versatile artist who wears various hats and excels in multitudinous artistic endeavours “There’s usually something about the nature of the image that immediately implies the use of colour and media and composition. It’s about trying to find the right tone of voice, the clearest and most expressive way to communicate the image, the ideas, the emotions, the atmosphere, the feeling in the work. If it’s a story, the mood may change, the characters may go through different emotional states. This is one of the reasons I love comics; you can use a full palate of visual language to express these changes. A worried tentative pencil drawing obviously has a different emotional weight than a harsh black and white photograph, or a sculptural form, or a brightly coloured painting.” FACING PAGE: A painted page from The Coast Road. The story was presented as a narrative exhibition, and later reprinted in Pictures that Tick 2 ( 2009) . Acrylic, collage. ABOVE: Illustration for a short story, published in Penthouse (2003). Acrylic, digital. BELOW: A panel from The Savage by David Almond (2007). “My son Liam posed for reference.” Ink, watercolour.