Graphic illustrator Justin Van Genderen has created some superb minimalistic travel posters for some of the great comic book locales. See more after the link. Prints available here.

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IbBY Ireland are hosting a night of manga: stories and illustrations on Thursday 9 November with artists John Jennings, winner of the Cork International Youth Film and Video Award for Best Animation and Leeann Hamilton, author of the comic Finn and Fish.

Free Manga Books will be up for grabs, thanks to Walker Books and refreshments and nibbles from Yo! Sushi. Admission €5 (free to iBbY Ireland members)

Kicking off at Exchange (Exchange Street Upper, D2) doors open at 6.15pm. Click here for full details.

The Observer features their choice of “10 of the best illustrated books” – with some surprising results – including Maurice Sendak’s The Sign on Rosie’s Door, Quentin Blake’s All Join In, Norman Linday’s The Magic Pudding and Shaun Tan’s excellent The Lost Thing.

At the end of this book, the narrator says: “I still think about that lost thing from time to time.” And so will Tan’s readers. The lost thing is strange: tomato red with grey tentacles. It is inert, friendly and nameless. Tan’s haunting story is about what it means to be lost and found – dropped off in a place of unclaimed objects. The Lost Thing is surreal and metaphysical. It makes you look – and think – twice. A modern Australian triumph – but much more forlorn than The Magic Pudding

Here’s some recent work created by members of Illustrators
Ireland (IGI). Each member has submitted one of their favourite illustrations from the previous month, either commissioned or personal. Follow the link below to see all this month’s entries.
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Warm yourself up on this cold Thursday morning by watching this video of Kenny Scharf creating a mural on Houston Street in Manhattan.  You can see some pictures of  the finished piece here

WE TOO WERE CHILDREN, MR. BARRIE is a blog about children’s books written by “adult” authors including Graham Greene and James Joyce. They focus on one author a week and they have a Flickr SET for full scans of books, some very nice retro illustration work.