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Quentin Blake - Clown (43/65)

To listen to more of Quentin Blake’s stories, go to the playlist:    • Quentin Blake - Memories of early lif...   British illustrator Quentin Blake was born in 1932. He had his first work published by 'Punch' magazine at the age of 16. Since then, he has illustrated books by a variety of different authors, most famously many by Roald Dahl. [Listener: Ghislaine Kenyon; date recorded: 2006] TRANSCRIPT: I don't think you can… it's difficult to say, and now I will have an idea. I think you have to make a few notes, and, sort of, have an open mind, and hope that some kind of idea will turn up. And I did two… I started two books at almost the same time, and one turned out to be Clown, and the other one turned out to be The Green Ship, which are quite different, and one is about a toy that has independent life and runs about trying to find someone to rescue the… his fellow toys who are in the dustbin. And it was interesting to find that that was… that it was more serious than I thought it was going to be, in a sense. I mean it was about these people being rejected, and what you have to do in that case, and I discovered that it was a book that was… that had an urban landscape. And I mean I could have sat down and said, I must do a book with an urban landscape, because most people live in cities. But I don't think I could have done it that way round. I mean I found that I, for some reason or another, thought out of mime and clowns and things like that, there was this idea of the toy, which I invented the story to, and then again you had to... he was generally thrown somewhere, but… into the air, or through a window or something like that. So that you've got this business of designing the pages so that he was in the predicament on one page and fell out of it, or into the next predicament on the next page. And… that… I had two… in fact the book has no text, I just did it in… again, it was interesting to me to do it as telling a story entirely in pictures. The only word is the title. And it's published in some other languages, and it's published in… France, where it doesn't have to be translated, because the clown is the same word in France, conveniently. But… and I had two little reactions in France, which were quite interesting to me, one was a review on the radio, where they said, 'Each double page spread is a chapter'. And that… they were acknowledging that business that you brought it to a crisis and then you turn the page. And another French man said to me, they're sans-abri. So they were homeless people, I mean you could see that they were, sort of… and in a sense it was a kind of miniature version, which they are in that predicament.