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Gruezi, Hannes Binder! The Holiday Twin

With its incredibly impressive implementation of the Mörike poem "At midnight " He was one of my favorites in this year's German Youth Literature Prize in Division of picture books: the famous Swiss painter and illustrator Hannes Binder . The "Master of scraperboard technique" was famous for his detective novels to comics by Friedrich Glauser, but others received awards for the illustrations for youth legend "The Black brothers.

Here Hannes Binder on his favorite children's book:

"It has at various times corresponding favorite books. As a child, was with me, "Doctor Dolittle's Circus." And while I remained one of the distinctive art nouveau-quality illustrations to date. It can be seen in an alley, Dr. Dolittle and the cat food man with a lot of points to the long arm a bit high. The Legend coined a deep well, "Matthew waved his bread to the sky." These trifles a bizarre parallel world I think is great.

But I want to talk about my current favorite book.

I met him in Milan, the next major metropolis of the Abroad, where I inspire myself. The Italian title of the big red book by Chen Jiang Hong was "Io e Mao" - Me and Mao, much stronger than in the German translation "To Grandfather's hand"

I was. immediately impressed by the immediacy of drawing by hand, by the more adventurous of the craft. You could feel the different drawing tools. Brush, pen, the resistance to the paper. The lightness of the sketch is still preserved here.

Chen has a great security in choosing the right moment and the cut in the panels. We experience his childhood at the hands of the grandfather and get to know quite a lot of small-scale details of kitchen and household. It is these small handouts from the child's perspective, what makes this book so gripping and believable.

We experience the Cultural Revolution, the loss of individuality through children's eyes. Unlike many comics or graphic novels to political upheaval, it is the absence of any clichés, which accounts for the great quality. "

Eduard Moerike and Hannes Binder, "At midnight" - © Bajazzo Publisher
Chen Jiang Hong, "An grandfather's hand", © Moritz Verlag