Chris Riddell

Um, I don't want to pick any favorites 'cause I kind of can't remember them enough.

But some of the books and authors that I really loved as a kid, uh, include the Keys to the Kingdom series and all Kingdom series by Garth Nix, um, the Artemis Fowl series, uh, Percy Jackson, uh, the Edge Chronicles by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell, His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman, and then some rogue choices like the Jiggy McCue series by Michael Lawrence and The Day My Bum Went Psycho by Andy Griffiths.

Lovely.

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So he did straddle this world between politics and literature, which makes him a very interesting figure.

What has been his legacy? Well, I think his legacy is seen in later illustrators like Chris Riddell.

The idea that you can be both a cartoonist and an illustrator seems to have a sound lineage.

I think he also set up this idea that you could make a book almost like a visual experience.