It is rare for me to pounce on a graduates book, the last time I did it was Maisie Shearing's and Bridget Falmer's.
This book by Mo Li called 'A Story From Nobody is fantastic, the words, the innovative illustration, the whole feel of it! I am proud to have it in my collection. I wish Mo Li all the best and, if and when I make my own publishers, this would be one of the first books I would publish.
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'The award-winning musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street by Steven Sondheim has been reimagined into countless movie adaptions that tells the tale of Benjamin Barker, a barber who was sent away from his family on a false charge.15 years later he returns to London with a new name, seeking revenge on the Judge who wrongly accused him. Mrs Lovett, a baker lady who lives below his Barber Shop, helps Todd in his plans of luring customers in for a shave, by disposing of the bodies and turning them into the best selling meat pies in Fleet Street.I've chosen Mrs Lovett's Pie Shop to inspire 3 graphic props to enhance her dusty old pie shop and add more depth to the storyline to produce verisimilitude within the viewer.' Grace Mitchell
As I said yesterday pies were a theme across Scotland's Art Colleges this year!
